Abstract: The unit hydrograph is a widely used method for hydrologic design. However, there is a general lack of understanding about the accuracy of the unit hydrographs used in urban areas. Analysis of storm data from seven urban ...

Abstract: Debris basins are a common engineering structure used to control debris flows. Knowledge of the risk of failure as a function of important design variables can improve decision making and can be used as a basis for minimizing ...

Abstract: For design problems where annual‐event analyses are inappropriate, such as in the case of channel scour due to floods above a threshold, multiple‐event analyses with partial duration series should be used. A procedure for ...

Abstract: The skew of a peak‐discharge frequency curve is an important determinant of the magnitude of events having small exceedance probabilities. Unfortunately, methods for estimating skews for ungaged locations provide highly ...