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Application of Index Procedures to Flood Frequency Analysis in Turkey 1
Author(s) -
Saf Betül
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00136.x
Subject(s) - flood myth , skewness , quantile , 100 year flood , hydrology (agriculture) , homogeneity (statistics) , drainage basin , return period , homogeneous , environmental science , mediterranean climate , coefficient of variation , statistics , physical geography , geography , geology , mathematics , cartography , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , combinatorics
This study investigates the regional analysis of annual maximum flood series of 48 stream gauging stations in the basins of the West Mediterranean Region in Turkey. The region is divided into three homogeneous subregions according to both Student‐ t test and Dalrymple homogeneity test. The regional relationships of mean annual flood per unit area‐drainage area and coefficient of skew‐coefficient of variation are obtained. Two statistically meaningful relationships of the mean flood per unit area‐drainage area and a unique relationship between skewness and variation coefficients exist. Results show that the index‐flood method may be applicable to each homogenous subregion to estimate flood quantiles in the study area.