Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

This review provides a broad overview of the current state of flood research, current
challenges, and future directions. Beginning with a discussion of flood-generating …

As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense
weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models simulate such changes in …

Current practice using probabilistic methods applied for designing hydraulic structures
generally assume that extreme events are stationary. However, many studies in the past …

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This revised, updated textbook
presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water …

The statistics of extremes have played an important role in engineering practice for water
resources design and management. How recent developments in the statistical theory of …

Concern over the potential impact of anthropogenic climate change on flooding has led to a
proliferation of studies examining past flood trends. Many studies have analysed annual …

Frequency analysis is a technique of fitting a probability distribution to a series of
observations for defining the probabilities of future occurrences of some events of interest …

The objective of the present study is to develop efficient estimation methods for the use of
the GEV distribution for quantile estimation in the presence of nonstationarity. Parameter …

Maps give a more direct and stronger impression of the spatial distribution of the flood risk
than other forms of presentation (verbal description, diagrams). Thus, maps are valuable for …