AWRA Alaska Meeting Field Trips
New methods and tools for estimating flood frequency statistics in AlaskaTechniques and equations for estimating flood frequency in Alaska have been updated in 2016! There are also new methods and tools for estimating flood frequency at gaged sites throughout the nation. Instructor: Janet Curran, USGS Alaska Science
Center, Anchorage, AK Background: The workshop will introduce concepts of frequency
at gaged rivers and streams throughout the nation and provide hands-on
training in methods for estimating flood frequency flows at gaged
and ungaged streams in Alaska that are described in a new USGS report
(Curran and others, 2016). Recently revised methods include EMA
techniques for flood frequency analysis, which are replacing Bulletin
17B techniques, and new regional skew and regression equations for
streams in Alaska and conterminous basins in Canada. Recently released
tools include an updated version of PeakFQ, an application tool
published with the new USGS report, and the new StreamStats application
available for the Cook Inlet Basin. Attendee Requirements: Workshop participants should bring
a Windows device pre-loaded with the free USGS PeakFQ software,
available from http://water.usgs.gov/software/PeakFQ/. Contact: Robin Beebee;
or Janet Curran Schedule (subject to change):
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