Abstract: Abstract. Classical statistical methods for flood frequency estimation assume stationarity in the gauged data. However, recent focus on climate change and, within UK hydrology, severe floods in 2009 and 2015 have raised the profile of statistical analyses that include trends. This paper considers how parameter estimates for the Generalised Logistic distribution (standard for UK annual maximum flows) vary through time, using the UK Benchmark Network (UKBN2) to separate the effects of land-use change from climate change. We focus on the sensitivi...
(read more)
Topics: 
Statistics
Econometrics
Meteorology