Frequency analyses of annual extreme rainfall series from 5 min to 24 h

HAKTANIR T., Cobaner M., Kişi O.

HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, cilt.24, sa.24, ss.3574-3588, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 24 Sayı: 24
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1002/hyp.7759
  • Dergi Adı: HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.3574-3588
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The parameter estimation methods of (1) moments, (2) maximum-likelihood, (3) probability-weighted moments (PWM) and (4) self-determined PWM are applied to the probability distributions of Gumbel, general extreme values, three-parameter log-normal (LN3), Pearson-3 and log-Pearson-3. The special method of computing parameters so as to make the sample skewness coefficient zero is also applied to LN3, and hence, altogether 21 candidate distributions resulted. The parameters of these distributions are computed first by original sample series of 14 successive-duration annual extreme rainfalls recorded at a rain-gauging station. Next, the parameters are scaled by first-degree semi-log or log-log polynomial regressions versus rainfall durations from 5 to 1440 min (24 h). Those distributions satisfying the divergence criterion for frequency curves are selected as potential distributions, whose better-fit ones are determined by a conjunctive evaluation of three goodness-of-fit tests. Frequency tables, frequency curves and intensity-duration-frequency curves are the outcome. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.