Estimation of Maximum Flood Discharge (MFD) for a given return period is important for planning, design and management of hydraulic structures for the project. This can be achieved through Flood Frequency Analysis (FFA) by fitting of probability distributions to the recorded Annual Maximum Discharge (AMD) data. In this paper, Gamma and Extreme Value family of probability distributions are adopt...

Estimation of Maximum Flood Discharge (MFD) for a given return period is important for planning, design and management of hydraulic structures for the project. This can be achieved through Flood Frequency Analysis (FFA) by fitting of probability distributions to the recorded Annual Maximum Discharge (AMD) data. In this paper, Gamma and Extreme Value family of probability distributions are adopt...

Urban flooding is estimated to cause £270 million pounds worth of damage each year in England and Wales alone. There has, therefore, been a clear need to develop improved methods of identifying intervention strategies to reduce flood risk in urban environments. This paper describes ground-work performed towards evaluating the relative suitability of several algorithms applied to multi-objective...

Introduction Coastal floods account for a large proportion of the damage to life and property due to natural disasters world-wide. Out of the 15 greatest natural disasters in the world in terms of monetary losses between 2004 and 2008, 14 were coastal (Kron 2008). However, despite the enormity of a particular flood event, people often return to a flood-prone area after a disaster (Cigler 2007; ...

Fitting flood prediction curves by eye to the data of return period plots is an intuitive approach to estimating «-year flood discharge magnitudes from single-site data. However, the subjective nature of this "procedure" means that it is unlikely to be adopted as a recognized flood estimation technique. An experiment with a group of volunteers demonstrates that some individuals are capable of s...