REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF CEYHAN RIVER BASIN IN TURKEY USING L-MOMENTS METHOD

SEÇKİN N., YURTAL R., Haktanir T., TOPALOĞLU F.

FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN, cilt.19, ss.2616-2624, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Dergi Adı: FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2616-2624
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: L moments, Regional flood frequency, Probability distribution, MODEL SELECTION, IDENTIFICATION, DIAGRAMS
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Hydrological homogeneity of the Ceyhan River Basin from the standpoint of annual flood peaks frequency is determined by the index flood procedure coupled with the L-moments method instead of the method of conventional moments The L-moments analysis of the recorded annual flood peaks data at 19 gauged sites indicates that the Ceyhan Basin is hydrologically heterogeneous as a whole, but, it can be divided in two homogeneous sub-regions Generalized Logistic, Generalized Extreme Values, Generalized Normal, Pearson Type III, Wakeby, and Generalized Pareto distributions are applied in both sub-regions The Z statistics test is used to determine the more suitable one among these probability distributions, which points towards the Generalized Logistic distribution for both sub-regions of the Ceyhan River Basin A regional curve of flood frequency analysis for each sub-region is developed as the outcome of the study