Use of Limited Site-Specific Flood Information in Estimating Flood Peaks

摘要

Long-term stream gage records are seldom available at locations where flood-frequency estimates are required. As a result, most estimates are made by transferring information from nearby locations where flood records exist. Occasionally estimates of large past floods (historic flood information) and/or less than 10 years of gage record (short-record flood information) are available at the site. Procedures are developed and evaluated to systematically combine this limited site-specific flood information and regional flow-frequency estimates at ungaged sites or gaged sites with less than 10 years of record to obtain a more accurate flood peak estimate. 29 references, 23 figures, 31 tables. (ERA citation 09:044753)