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Technique for Estimating Magnitude and Frequency of Floods on Natural-Flow Streams in Florida

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Date Issued:
1982
Summary:
A technique is provided for estimating floods on natural-flow streams in Florida for specific recurrence intervals of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, and 500 years. Flood peaks from 159 stream-gaging stations with long-term records (10-53 years) and 23 rainfall-runoff stations with short-term records (7-17 years) were used in a multiple linear regression analysis to develop the regional equations relating peak discharge to basin characteristics. The state is divided into three hydrologic regions (A, B, and C). The significant independent variables were drainage area, channel slope, and lake area in regions A and C. In Region B, the significant independent variables were drainage area and lake area.
Title: Technique for Estimating Magnitude and Frequency of Floods on Natural-Flow Streams in Florida.
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Name(s): Bridges, W. C.
Florida Dept. of Transportation.
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Bibliography
Issuance: multipart monograph
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey
Open-File Services Section, U.S. Geological Survey [distributor]
Place of Publication: Tallahassee, Fla.
Lakewood, CO
Physical Form: print
Extent: v, 44 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language(s): eng
Summary: A technique is provided for estimating floods on natural-flow streams in Florida for specific recurrence intervals of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, and 500 years. Flood peaks from 159 stream-gaging stations with long-term records (10-53 years) and 23 rainfall-runoff stations with short-term records (7-17 years) were used in a multiple linear regression analysis to develop the regional equations relating peak discharge to basin characteristics. The state is divided into three hydrologic regions (A, B, and C). The significant independent variables were drainage area, channel slope, and lake area in regions A and C. In Region B, the significant independent variables were drainage area and lake area.
Identifier: 09210703 (oclc), fgcu_swfe_0448 (IID), AAA3896 QF
Note(s): by Wayne C. Bridges ; prepared in cooperation with the Florida Department of Transportation.
Chiefly tables.
Bibliography: p. 43-44.
Subject(s): Flood forecasting -- Florida
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Host Institution: FGCU
Is Part of Series: Water-resources investigations ; 82-4012.