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A direct analysis of flood interval probability using approximately 100-year streamflow datasets
Authors:Ian M. Brodie  Shahjahan Khan
Affiliation:1. School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, International Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australiabrodiei@usq.edu.au;3. School of Agricultural, Computational and Environmental Sciences, International Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Abstract:ABSTRACT

Series of observed flood intervals, defined as the time intervals between successive flood peaks over a threshold, were extracted directly from 11 approximately 100-year streamflow datasets from Queensland, Australia. A range of discharge thresholds were analysed that correspond to return periods of approximately 3.7 months to 6.3 years. Flood interval histograms at South East Queensland gauges were consistently unimodal whereas those of the North and Central Queensland sites were often multimodal. The exponential probability distribution (pd) is often used to describe interval exceedence probabilities, but fitting utilizing the Anderson-Darling statistic found little evidence that it is the most suitable. The fatigue life pd dominated sub-year return periods (<1 year), often transitioning to a log Pearson 3 pd at above-year return periods. Fatigue life pd is used in analysis of the lifetime to structural failure when a threshold is exceeded, and this paper demonstrates its relevance also to the elapsed time between above-threshold floods. At most sites, the interval medians were substantially less than the means for sub-year return periods. Statistically the median is a better measure of the central tendency of skewed distributions but the mean is generally used in practice to describe the classical concept of flood return period.
Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor I. Nalbantis
Keywords:flood frequency analysis  design discharges  partial series  peaks over threshold  annual series  flood interval  return period  probability distribution  non-parametric test
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