Abstract
Since the Flood Studies Report was published, many of the techniques devised for it have been subsequently developed and their range of application extended. One of the investigations arising from this development was the World Flood Study [1] which, in the words of its authors, “was conceived with the aim of examining and classifying the characteristics of floods in as many countries and from as wide a range of climates as possible.” Much of this work has been subsequently reported in the literature [2] .
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Meigh, J. and Farquharson, F. A. K. World Flood Study, Phase II. Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, Nov. 1985
Farquharson, F. A. K. et al. Comparison of flood frequency curves for many different regions of the World, from Regional Flood Frequency Analysis (V. P. Singh, ed.), Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987
Further reading
Rodier, J. A. and Roche, M. World catalogue of maximum observed floods. Int. Assoc. Hydrological Science, No. 143 (1984)
UNESCO. World catalogue of very large floods, UNESCO Press, Paris, 1976
Wiltshire, S. E. Grouping basins for regional flood frequency analysis. Hydr. Sci. Journal, 30 (1985) 151
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Wilson, E.M. (1990). International Flood Frequency Growth Curves. In: Engineering Hydrology. Red Globe Press, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20610-0_11
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