Application of frequency and risk in water resources : proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses, 14-17 May 1986, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.

Section 1 Flood Characteristics.- Research Needs on Flood Characteristics.- Application of Probable Maximum Flood Estimates to the Design of Water Resource Development Projects.- Heavy Rain Storm Floods in China and their Estimation.- Section 2 Design Flood.- The Bayesian Framework for Inference in Flood Frequency Analysis.- Development of Design Procedures for Extreme Floods in Australia.- Design Flood for Canafisto Dam.- The Experiences of Design Flood of Reservoirs in Medium and Small Basins by the Method of Design Storm.- Estimation of Design Flood.- Design Flood Estimation for Narmada Sagar Project Using Partial Duration Series - A Case Study.- Design Flood Computation with Limited Data - Case Study of a Reservoir in Subernrekha River Basin.- Section 3 Errors and Outliers.- Confidence Intervals for Design Flood Events under Different Statistical Flood Models.- Use of Additional Historical Information for Estimation and Goodness of Fit of Flood Frequency Models.- Extrapolation Error in Flood Frequency Analysis.- Effect of Discharge Measurement Error on the Results of Flood Frequency Analysis.- Some Researches on Determination of Return Period for Historical Flood in Analysis of Flood Frequency.- Section 4 Design of Water Resources Projects.- Potential and Application of Flood Frequency Determinations.- Flood Analyses Pertaining to Design of Nuclear Power Plants.- Some Applications of Flood Frequency and Risk Information in Forest Management.- Section 5 Risk and Reliability in Water Resources Projects.- Reviews of Advances in Risk and Reliability Analysis for Hydraulic Structures.- Flood Risk Evaluation of Urban Rivers with Standard Equi-Risk Lines.- The Evaluation of Financial Risk.- Uncertainties in Flood Plain Mapping.- Project Risk Considering Sampling Uncertainties and a Finite Project Operation Period.- Optimal Planning of Flood Control Systems Based on Risk Analyses of Flood Inundation.- Application of System Reliability Analysis to Flood Forecasting.- Section 6 Flood Damage Assessment.- A Stochastic Approach to Flood Damage Estimation.- Flood Hazard Assessment on Alluvial Fans: An Examination of the Methodology.- Flood Damage - Frequency Analysis of an Urbanizing Watershed.- Flood Risk Bias Analysed through a Multi-State Flood Insurance Model.- Section 7 Federal Practice of Frequency and Risk Analyses.- Corps of Engineers Procedures for Evaluating and Modifying Existing Dams to Safely Accommodate the Current Inflow Design Flood.- Bureau of Reclamation Use of Risk Analysis.- TVA Practice in Flood Frequency and Risk Analysis.- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Use of Flood Risk Analyses.- Flood Risk Analysis for the National Flood Insurance Program.- The National Weather Service Role in Flood Frequency and Risk Analysis.- The Role of Flood-Frequency Analysis in the U.S. Geological Survey.- Some Remarks on Practice of Flood Frequency and Risk Analysis by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.- Author Index.