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Peter Mock, Ph.D.

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RE: Return Periods of (Mixed) Extreme Events

Posted By Peter Mock 11-09-2017 02:36 PM
Found In Egroup: Environment, Coasts, Oceans, & Infrastructure \ view thread
Thank you, everyone, for your postings as I learned or was reminded of several good points. Included in the postings are thoughts on reconsidering the statistical characterization of precipitation events in the Houston area, whether characterization has any value or not, what goes into engineering planning ...

Return Periods of (Mixed) Extreme Events

Posted By Peter Mock 11-02-2017 02:37 PM
Found In Egroup: Environment, Coasts, Oceans, & Infrastructure \ view thread
The EWRI Currents magazine just presented a great article: "A Method to Estimate Return Period of Extreme Events Applied to Hurricane Harvey Rainfall" by Christina Hughes and others. Lumped in with the historical dataset of all kinds of precipitation in Houston, the Harvey accumulations have astronomically ...