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EDDIES IN MARINE SCIENCE (Edited by A. R. Robinson) Springer-Verlag, 1983, 268 figures, 625 pages. Price: DM 120 (U.S. $49.60). ISBN 3-540-12253-2

THE SOLAR GRANULATION, by R. J. Bray, R. E. Loughhead, and C. J. Durrant, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press 1984. xvi + 245 pp. Price: £27.50, $54.50, ISBN 0-521-24714-4.

ASTROPHYSICAL JETS. Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Torino, Italy. October 7–9, 1982. Edited by A. Ferrari and A. G. Pacholczyk, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983. xvi + 327 pp. Dfl. 110.00 (US. $48.00). ISBN 90-277-1627-7.

INTERNAL KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF GALAXIES. IAU Symposium No. 100. Edited by E. Athanassoula. D. Reidel Publishing Company, xiv + 432 pp. 1983. Price: Dfl. 115 (U.S. $49.50) ISBN 90-277-1546-7

HANDBOOK OF PLASMA PHYSICS—BASIC PLASMA PHYSICS 1. Edited by A. A. Galeev and R. N. Sudan. North-Holland Publishing Company 1983. 730 pages. Price: US. $180.75 (Dfl. 425.00). ISBN 0-444-86427-x.

NUMERICAL METHODS FOR FLUID DYNAMICS. Edited by K. W. Morton, xiv + 517 pp, Price $55.50 (£30). ISBN 0-12-508360-2.

MAGNETIC FIELDS IN ASTROPHYSICS, By Ya. B. Zeldovich, A. A. Ruzmaikin and D. D. Sokoloff. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, xvi + 365 pp. 1984. Price $60.00. ISBN 0-677-05530-7 (Vol. 3 in “The Fluid Mechanics of Astrophysics and Geophysics” ISSN 0260 4353).     

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Statistical and deterministic modelling estimates of flood magnitudes and frequencies that can affect flood-plain ecology in the upper Ahuriri River catchment, a mountainous high country catchment in the New Zealand Southern Alps, were evaluated. Statistical analysis of 46 years of historical data showed that floods are best modelled by the generalized extreme value and lognormal distributions. We evaluated application of the HEC-HMS model to this environment by modelling flood events of various frequencies. Model results were validated and compared with the statistical estimates. The SCS curve number method was used for losses and runoff generation, and the model was very sensitive to curve number. The HEC-HMS flood estimates matched the statistical estimates reasonably well, and, over all return periods, were on average approximately 1% greater. However, the model generally underestimated flood peaks up to the 25-year event and overestimated magnitudes above this. The results compared well with other regional estimates, including studies based on L-moments, and showed that this catchment has smaller floods than other similarly-sized catchments in the Southern Alps.

Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Associate editor H. Aksoy

Citation Caruso, B.S., Rademaker, M., Balme, A., and Cochrane, T.A., 2013. Flood modelling in a high country mountain catchment, New Zealand: comparing statistical and deterministic model estimates for ecological flows. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58 (2), 328–341.