Detection and attribution of urbanization effect on flood extremes using nonstationary flood-frequency models

Water Resour Res. 2015 Jun;51(6):4244-4262. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017065. Epub 2015 Jun 16.

Abstract

Urbanization is found to have an impact on high flows in a urbanized catchmentThe use of point processes is advocated for trend detection and attributionThe use of process-related covariates gives a better representation of change.

Keywords: change attribution; flood‐frequency analysis; nonstationarity; urban cover.