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Selected References on Flood Frequency Analysis

• Benson, M.A., 1962, Evolution of methods for evaluating the occurrence of floods. USGS WSP 1580-A.
• Benson, M.A., 1962, Factors influencing the occurrence of floods in a humid region of diverse terrain. USGS WSP 1580-B (regional regression methodology)
• Jennings, M.E., Thomas, W.O. Jr., Riggs, H.C., 1994, Nationwide summary of USGS regional regression equations for estimating magnitude and frequency of floods for ungaged sites, 1993. USGS WRI 94-4002. (See also OSW National Flood-Frequency Program world-wide-web page (http://water.usgs.gov/osw/programs/nffp.html) and Water Resources Applications Software NFF web page (http://water.usgs.gov/software/nff.html for any updates.)
• Sauer, V.B. and others, 1983, Flood characteristics of urban watersheds in the US. USGS WSP 2207, 63 p.
• Tasker, G.D., Stedinger, J.R., 1989, An operational GLS model for hydrologic regression. J Hydrology 111, 361-375. (generalized least squares)
• Tasker, G.D., Slade, R.M. Jr., 1994, An interactive regional regression approach to estimating flood quantiles: in Fontane,DG, and Tuvel,HN, Water Policy and Management: Solving Problems, American Society of Civil Engineers, Proceedings of the 21-st annual conference of the Water Resources Planning and Management Division, pp. 782-785.
• U.S. Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, 1982, Guidelines for determining flood flow frequency, Bulletin 17-B of the Hydrology Subcommittee: Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Water Data Coordination, [183 p.]. [Available from National Technical Information Service, Springfield VA 22161, as report no. PB 86 15 7278.] [Also available in pdf format (about 28 Mbytes)]
• Crippen, J.R., Bue, C.D., 1977, Maximum floodflows in the conterminous US. USGS WSP 1887, 52 p. (envelope curve method)

• Dalrymple, T., 1960, Flood-frequency analyses. USGS WSP 1543-A. (index-flood methodology)
• Maidment, D.R., (ed) 1993, Handbook of hydrology. McGraw-Hill. (especially ch 17-18)
• Chow, V.T., 1964, Handbook of applied hydrology. McGraw-Hill. (esp sections 8 and 25.1)
• American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996, Hydrology Handbook, Second ed. ASCE.
• Cudworth, A.G., 1989, Flood hydrology manual. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 243 p.
• Riggs, H.C., 1985, Streamflow characteristics. Elsevier, 249 p.
• U.S. Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, 1986, Feasibility of assigning a probability to the Probable Maximum Flood. USGS OWDC, Reston, 79 p.
• U.S. National Research Council. 1988. Estimating probabilities of extreme floods. National Academy press, Washington, D.C., 141 p.