Stochastic rainfall generation for design flow estimation

Funding: 2006: $20,000
2007: $10,000
2008: $20,000

Project Member(s): Ball, J.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2006

Summary: Floods cause one third of all natural disasters worldwide, more than half the fatalities and one-third the economic loss. Accurate design flood estimation can help alleviate this impact. The estimation procedure currently used assumes that a given rainfall leads to a corresponding design flood, negating the influence variations in pre-existing soil moisture conditions may have. An alternative that overcomes the above limitation is to use stochastically generated rainfall series to simulate flows from which the design flood can be estimated. This study aims to develop a generic framework for stochastic generation of rainfall for design flood estimation in Australia.

FOR Codes: Land and water management, Surfacewater Hydrology, Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Land and Water Management, Surface water hydrology, Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use , Terrestrial erosion , Terrestrial systems and management not elsewhere classified

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