Articles | Volume 373
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-373-61-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-373-61-2016
12 May 2016
 | 12 May 2016

A regional look at the selection of a process-oriented model for flood peak/volume relationships

Ján Szolgay, Ladislav Gaál, Tomáš Bacigál, Silvia Kohnová, Kamila Hlavčová, Roman Výleta, and Günter Blöschl

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The design of hydraulic structures where storage is involved, requires estimates of joint probability distribution of flood volumes and flood peaks. The problem of choosing a joint distribution was so far approached more from a statistical point of view. In the paper the suitability of various copula models of this relationships was analysed with a particular focus on the type and seasonality of flood generation processes in a regional context.