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A NEW FLOOD REGIONALISATION MODEL FOR LARGE FLOOD ESTIMATION IN AUSTRALIA
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Estimation of large to rare floods is needed in the design of major water infrastructure such as large bridges, weir s and dam spillways. This paper presents a simple Large Flood Regionalisation Model (LFRM) which is relatively easy to apply in practice. The proposed method assumes that the maximum observed flood data over a large number of sites in a region can be pooled together by accounting for the at-site variations in the mean and coefficient of variation (CV) and inter-station correlation among the flood series data. For application of the LFRM to the ungauged catchment case, prediction equations need to be developed. In this study, a generalised least squares regression (GLSR) combined with the region-of-influe nce (ROI) approach is used for developing the prediction equations for the mean and CV of the annual maximum flood series as a function of easily obtainable catchment characteristics. The LFRM is developed and tested in this paper using data from 626 catchments across the Australian continent.
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