Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 27, issue 24
Articles | Volume 27, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4369-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4369-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 27, issue 24
Research article
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14 Dec 2023
Research article |  | 14 Dec 2023

Inferring heavy tails of flood distributions through hydrograph recession analysis

Hsing-Jui Wang, Ralf Merz, Soohyun Yang, and Stefano Basso

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Accurately assessing heavy-tailed flood behavior with limited data records is challenging and can lead to inaccurate hazard estimates. Our research introduces a new index that uses hydrograph recession to identify heavy-tailed flood behavior, compare severity, and produce reliable results with short data records. This index overcomes the limitations of current metrics, which lack physical meaning and require long records. It thus provides valuable insight into the flood hazard of river basins.
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