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Title

Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation Events in Washington State

 
Publication number Date Published
89-51November 1989
VIEW NOW Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation Events in Washington State (Number of pages: 122) (Publication Size: 16032KB)




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Author(s) Schaefer, Melvin
Description The primary objective of this study was to develop probabilistic information about the characteristics of extreme storms for use in the computer modeling of extreme floods. Specifically, information was needed for the construction of synthetic storm hyetographs which have the statistical properties of observed extreme storms.
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Keywords storms, events, strategies, precipitation, model, flood
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