Fitting extreme value distributions to the Zambezi river flood water levels recorded at Katima Mulilo in Namibia.

Description

The aim of this research project was to estimate parameters for the distribution of annual maximum flood levels for the Zambezi River at Katima Mulilo. The estimation of parameters was done by using the maximum likelihood method. The study aimed to explore data of the Zambezi's annual maximum flood heights at Katima Mulilo by means of fitting the Gumbel, Weibull and the generalized extreme value distributions and evaluated their goodness of fit.

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Tags

Floods, Mathematical models

Flood forecasting

Stream measurements, Mathematical models

Extreme value theory.

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:UWC_ETD:http%3A%2F%2Fetd.uwc.ac.za%2Findex.php%3Fmodule%3Detd%26action%3Dviewtitle%26id%3Dinit_4462_1177066746
Date	January 2005
Creators	Kamwi, Innocent Silibelo
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Theses and Dissertations
Format	Pdf
Coverage	ZA