Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in statistical method for analysis of floods. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. HYDROLOGIC DATA SAMPLES, 3. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS, 4. LOG-PEARSON TYPE III DISTRIBUTION, 5. EXAMPLE APPLICATION USING BULLETIN 17B, 6. LIMITATIONS ON FREQUENCY CURVE EXTRAPOLATION, 7. MIXED POPULATIONS, 8. VOLUME ANALYSIS, 9. PROBABILITY RELATIONSHIPS FOR UNGAUGED AREAS, 10. GENERAL TRENDS IN FREQUENCY RELATIONSHIPS, 11. FOSS DAM EXAMPLE.

Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and others interested in statistical methods applied to flood analysis. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. HYDROLOGIC DATA SAMPLES 3. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS 4. LOG-PEARSON TYPE III DISTRIBUTION 5. EXAMPLE APPLICATION USING BULLETIN 17B 6. LIMITATIONS ON FREQUENCY CURVE EXTRAPOLATION 7. MIXED POPULATIONS 8. VOLUME ANALYSIS 9. PROBABILITY RELATIONSHIPS FOR UNGAUGED AREAS 10. GENERAL TRENDS IN FREQUENCY RELATIONSHIPS 11. FOSS DAM EXAMPLE.

Introductory technical guidance for Professional Engineers interested in flood study field reports. Here is what is discussed: 1. GENERAL, 2. SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF A FLOOD STUDY REPORT, 3. FIELD RECONNAISSANCE REPORT, 4. STATISTICS AND PROBABILITIES.

Introductory technical guidance for Professional Engineers interested in flood runoff analysis. Here is what is discussed: 1. GENERAL, 2. APPLICATIONS OF FLOOD-RUNOFF ANALYSIS, 3. NATURE OF FLOOD HYDROLOGY, 4. DATA CONSIDERATIONS, 5. APPROACHES TO FLOOD-RUNOFF ANALYSIS, 6. STUDY FORMULATION AND REPORTING, 7. CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION, 8. SUMMARY.

Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers interested in flood control engineering. Here is what is discussed: 1. GENERAL, 2. GAUGED VERSUS UNGAUGED PARAMETER ESTIMATION, 3. ANTECEDENT MOISTURE CONDITIONS, 4. SURFACE LOSS ESTIMATION, 5. INFILTRATION METHODS, 6. IMPERVIOUS AREAS, 7. METHOD SELECTION.

Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers and other professional engineers and water resources managers interested in flood hydrology. Here is what is discussed: 1. BACKGROUND AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, 2. BASIC HYDROLOGIC AND METEOROLOGIC DATA.