Interest in hurricane risk usually focuses on landfalling events of the highest intensity, which cause a disproportionate amount of hurricane-related damage. Yet assessing the long-term risk of the most intense landfalling events is problematic because there are comparatively few of them in the historical record. For this reason, return periods of the most intense storms are usually estimated b...

in regions with deficient or no data, it is necessary to apply indirect methods to estimate the peak flow. regional flood analysis is the most accurate and reliable technique in such cases. one of the regional flood methods for flood analysis in arid and semi arid regions is hybrid technique, which was applied on data of khorasan razavi province watersheds to estimate the peak flow. hybrid meth...

growing environmental and social concerns, both on the part of decision makers and public opinion, have brought a new perspective to the perception of hazard assessments a valid alternative in the long-term, and an effective complement in short and medium terms, to traditional design procedure for a resistant and safe environment. results of the gradual development of research on the probabilis...

predicting the hydraulic behavior of the river and flood zone determination to reduce probable damages, are among measures which in recent years has been the attention of many researchers. mazandaran province, especially the city of neka, each year is affected by the floods with different return periods; therefore, land use changes and the role of these changes were evaluated in flood zones. in...

Gutenberg and Richter showed that magnitude-recurrence relationship may be represented by a linear relationship when the log of annual rate of exceedance was plotted against magnitude. This type of recurrence model has been in use because of its simplicity and because it fits the data reasonably well over a useful range of magnitudes of engineering interest. A quadratic log frequency relationsh...