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Regional parent flood frequency distributions in Europe – Part 1: Is the GEV model suitable as a pan-European parent?
J. L. Salinas
Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
A. Castellarin
Department DICAM, School of Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
A. Viglione
Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
S. Kohnová
Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, SUT Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
T. R. Kjeldsen
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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