Open AccessAnalysis of high waters on the Kriva Reka River, Macedonia
Author(s) -
Dragan Vasileski,
Иван Радевски
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta geographica slovenica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.473
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1581-8314
pISSN - 1581-6613
DOI - 10.3986/ags54209
Subject(s) - gumbel distribution , distribution (mathematics) , hydropower , hydrology (agriculture) , statistical analysis , environmental science , mathematics , statistics , geology , biology , geotechnical engineering , ecology , extreme value theory , mathematical analysis
The Kriva Reka River is located in northeastern Macedonia. Only a few manmade facilities, such as canals, dams, embankments, and hydropower plants, have been built along the river. This river type is particularly useful for calculating high waters using mathematical and statistical methods. To this end, five theoretical distributions were used in this study: the Gaussian normal distribution, log-normal distribution, Gumbel distribution, Pearson type III distribution, and log-Pearson type III distribution. In order to determine the probability of the occurrence of high waters at the Trnovec gauging station on the Kriva Reka, a period of 39 hydrologic years was processed, each year beginning in October.