Papers using L-moments in the environmental sciences

Adamowski, K. (2000). Regional analysis of annual maximum and partial duration flood data by nonparametric and L-moment methods. Journal of Hydrology, 229, 219-231.

Anctil, F., Larouche, W., and Hoang, V. D. (2000). Analyse regionale des etiages 7-jours de la province de Quebec. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 35, 125-146.

Awadallah, A. G., Rousselle, J., and Leconte, R. (1999). Evolution du risque hydrologique sur la riviere Chateauguay. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 26, 510-523.

Benson, C. (1993). Probability distributions for hydraulic conductivity of compacted soil liners. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 119, 471-486.

Ben-Zvi, A., and Azmon, B. (1997). Joint use of L-moment diagram and goodness-of-fit test: a case study of diverse series. Journal of Hydrology, 198, 245-259.

Bradley, A. A. (1998). Regional frequency analysis methods for evaluating changes in hydrologic extremes. Water Resources Research, 34, 741-750.

Burn, D. H. (2002). The use of resampling for estimating confidence intervals for single site and pooled frequency analysis. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 48, 25-38.

Castellarin, A., Burn, D. H., and Brath, A. (2001). Assessing the effectiveness of hydrological similarity measures for flood frequency analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 241, 270-285.

Clausen, B., and Pearson, C. P. (1995). Regional frequency analysis of annual maximum streamflow drought. Journal of Hydrology, 173, 111-130.

Cong, S., Li, Y., Vogel, J. L., and Schaake, J. C. (1993). Identification of the underlying distribution form of precipitation by using regional data. Water Resources Research, 29, 1103-1111.

Cunderlik, J. M., and Burn, D. H. (2003). Non-stationary pooled flood frequency analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 276, 210-223.

Daviau, J.-L., Adamowski, K., and Patry, G. G. (2000). Regional flood frequency using GIS, L-moment and geostatistical methods. Hydrological Processes, 14, 2731-2753.

Dewar, R. E., and Wallis, J. R. (1999). Geographical patterning of interannual rainfall variability in the tropics and near tropics: an L-moments approach. Journal of Climate, 12, 3457-3466.

Duan, J., Selker, J., and Grant, G. E. (1998). Evaluation of probability density functions in precipitation models for the Pacific northwest. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 34, 617-627.

Fill, H. D., and Stedinger, J. R. (1995). L moment and PPCC goodness-of-fit tests for the Gumbel distribution and impact of autocorrelation. Water Resources Research, 31, 225-229.

Fill, H. D., and Stedinger, J. R. (1999). Using regional regression procedures within index flood procedures and an empirical Bayesian estimator. Journal of Hydrology, 210, 128-145.

Gellens, D. (2003). Combining regional approach and data extension procedure for assessing GEV distribution of extreme precipitation in Belgium. Journal of Hydrology, 268, 113-126.

Gingras, D., Adamowski, K., and Pilon, P. J. (1994). Regional flood equations for the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Water Resources Bulletin, 30, 55-67.

Glaves, R., and Waylen, P. R. (1997). Regional flood frequency analysis in southern Ontario using L-moments. The Canadian Geographer, 41, 178-193.

Gottschalk, L., Tallaksen, L. M., and Perzyna, G. (1997). Derivation of low flow distribution functions using recession curves. Journal of Hydrology, 194, 239-262.

Guttman, N. B. (1993). The use of L-moments in the determination of regional precipitation climates. Journal of Climate, 6, 2309-2325.

Guttman, N. B. (1996). Statistical characteristics of US historical climatology network temperature distributions. Climate Research, 6, 33-43.

Heth, C. D., and Cornell, E. H. (1998). Characteristics of travel by persons lost in Albertan wilderness areas. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 18, 223-235.

Kachroo, R. K., Mkhandi, S. H., and Parida, B. P. (2000). Flood frequency analysis of southern Africa: I. Delineation of homogeneous regions. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 45, 437-447.

Kjeldsen, T. R., and Rosbjerg, D. (2002). Comparison of regional index flood estimation procedures based on the extreme value type I distribution. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 16, 358-373.

Kjeldsen, T. R., Smithers, J. C., and Schulze, R. E. (2002). Regional flood frequency analysis in the KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, using the index-flood method. Journal of Hydrology, 255, 194-211.

Kroll, C. N., and Vogel, R. M. (2002). Probability distribution of low streamflow series in the United States. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 7, 137-146.

Kumar, P., Guttorp, P., and Foufoula-Georgiou, E. (1994). A probability-weighted moment test to assess simple scaling. Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 8, 173-183.

Kumar, R., Chatterjee, C., and Kumar, S. (2003). Regional flood formulas using L-moments for small watersheds of Sone subzone of India. Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 19, 47-53.

Lee, S. H., and Maeng, S. J. (2003a). Frequency analysis of extreme rainfall using L-moments. Irrigation and Drainage, 52, 219-230.

Lee, S. H., and Maeng, S. J. (2003b). Comparison and analysis of design floods by the change in the order of LH-moment methods. Irrigation and Drainage, 52, 231-245.

Lim, Y. H., and Lye, L. M. (2003). Regional flood estimation for ungauged basins in Sarawak, Malaysia. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 48, 79-94.

Madsen, H., Pearson, C. P., and Rosbjerg, D. (1997). Comparison of annual maximum series and partial duration series methods for modeling extreme hydrologic events. 2. Regional modeling. Water Resources Research, 33, 759-769.

Madsen, H., and Rosbjerg, D. (1997). Generalized least squares and empirical Bayes estimation in regional partial duration series index-flood modeling. Water Resources Research, 33, 771-781.

Madsen, H., Mikkelsen, P. S., Rosbjerg, D., and Harremoes, P. (1998). Estimation of regional intensity-duration-frequency curves for extreme precipitation. Water Science and Technology, 37, 29-36.

Pandey, M. D., Van Gelder, P. H. A. J. M., and Vrijling, J. K. (2001). The estimation of extreme quantiles of wind velocity using L-moments in the peaks-over-threshold approach. Structural Safety, 23, 179-192.

Pandey, M. D., Van Gelder, P. H. A. J. M., and Vrijling, J. K. (2003). Bootstrap simulations for evaluating the uncertainty associated with peaks-over-threshold estimates of extreme wind velocity. Environmetrics, 14, 27-43.

Parida, B. (1999). Modelling of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using a four-parameter kappa distribution. International Journal of Climatology, 19, 1389-1398.

Park, J.-S., Jung, H.-S., Kim, R.-S., and Oh, J.-H. (2001). Modelling summer extreme rainfall over the Korean Peninsula using Wakeby distribution. International Journal of Climatology, 21, 1371-1384.

Pearson, C. P. (1991). New Zealand regional flood frequency analysis using L moments. Journal of Hydrology (NZ), 30, 53-64.

Pearson, C. P. (1993). Application of L moments to maximum river flows. The New Zealand Statistician, 28, 2-10.

Pearson, C. P. (1995). Regional frequency analysis of low flows in New Zealand rivers. Journal of Hydrology (NZ), 33, 94-122.

Pilon, P. J., and Adamowski, K. (1992). The value of regional information to flood frequency analysis using the method of L-moments. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 19, 137-147.

Potter, K. W., and Lettenmaier, D. P. (1990). A comparison of regional flood frequency estimation methods using a resampling method. Water Resources Research, 26, 415-424.

Reed, D. W., and Stewart, E. J. (1994). Inter-site and inter-duration dependence of rainfall extremes. In Statistics for the environment 2: water related issues, eds. V. Barnett and K. F. Turkman, 125-143. New York: Wiley.

Rulli, M. C., and Rosso, R. (2002). An integrated simulation method for flash-flood risk assessment: 1. Frequency predictions in the Bisagno River by combining stochastic and deterministic methods. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 6, 267-283.

Schaefer, M. G. (1990). Regional analyses of precipitation annual maxima in Washington State. Water Resources Research, 26, 119-131.

Smithers, J. C. (1996). Short-duration rainfall frequency model selection in Southern Africa. Water S.A., 22, 211-217.

Smithers, J. C., and Schulze, R. E. (2001). A methodology for the estimation of short duration design storms in South Africa using a regional approach based on L-moments. Journal of Hydrology, 241, 42-52.

Vicente-Serrano, S. M., and Begueria-Portugues, S. (2003). Estimating extreme dry-spell risk in the middle Ebro valley (northeastern Spain): a comparative analysis of partial duration series with a general Pareto distribution and annual maxima series with a Gumbel distribution. International Journal of Climatology, 23, 1103-1118.

Vogel, R. M., and Wilson, I. (1996). Probability distribution of annual maximum, mean, and minimum streamflows in the United States. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 1, 69-76.

Wallis, J. R. (1993). Regional frequency studies using L-moments. In Concise encyclopedia of environmental systems, ed. P. C. Young, 468-476. Oxford: Pergamon.

Waylen, P., and Laporte, M. S. (1999). Flooding and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation phenomenon along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Hydrological Processes, 13, 2623-2638.

Waylen, P. R., and Zorn, M. R. (1998). Prediction of mean annual flows in north and central Florida. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 34, 149-157.

Zaidman, M. D., Keller, V., Young, A. R., and Cadman, D. (2003). Flow-duration-frequency behaviour of British rivers based on annual minima data. Journal of Hydrology, 277, 195-213.

Zrinji, Z., and Burn, D. H. (1994). Flood frequency analysis for ungauged sites using a region of influence approach. Journal of Hydrology, 153, 1-21.

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