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Assignment on Statistics in Hydrology

Submission deadline: 20 July 2022

1. Develop a spread sheet to calculate the mean, standard deviation, and skew
coefficient of a series of annual maximum flows. Test your work using the
following flood series:

2. Modify the spread sheet to calculate the mean, standard deviation, and skew
coefficients of the logarithms of the previous flood series. Verify the
formulas used in the Chow’s method to calculate the mean and standard
deviation of the log-transformed series from the original flood series.

3. The annual maximum flows of a certain stream have been found to be


normally distributed with mean 22,500 ft3/s and standard deviation 7500
ft3/s. Calculate the probability that a flow larger than 39,000 ft3/s will occur.
4. The 10-y and 25-y floods of a certain stream are 73 and 84 m3/s,
respectively. Assuming a normal distribution, calculate the 50-y and 100-y
floods. [Hint: similar to problem 7.22 (b)-Subramanya, just use normal
distribution]
5. The low flows of a certain stream have been shown to follow a normal
distribution. The flows expected to be exceeded 95% and 90% of the time
are 15 and 21 m3/s, respectively. What flow can be expected to be exceeded
80% of the time? [Hint: similar to previous one, this one is for exc. prob.]
6. Fit the following distribution curves to the data used in problem # 1. Plot the
calculated distribution along with the Weibull plotting positions.
7. Estimate the flood peaks with return period of 50 year from the fitted curve
(developed in problem #6) as well as by using the distribution parameters
(calculated in problem # 1) for the following three distributions. Compare
the two values and comment on the goodness of fit for each of the
distributions. [Hint: Use log probability paper for first two methods and
Gumbel probability paper for the last method]
1. Log-normal distribution
2. Log Pearson type III distribution
3. Extreme value type I distribution

8. Given the following statistics of annual maxima for stream X: number of


years n = 35; mean = 3545 ft3/s; standard deviation = 1870 ft3/s. Compute
the 100-y flood by the Gumbel method.[ Hint: Similar to 7.14 and 7.16 from
Subramanya, you have to calculate the design flood for the given return
period of 100 years]
9. Given the following statistics of annual maxima for river Y: number of
years n = 45; mean = 2700 m3/s; standard deviation 1300 m3/s; skew
coefficient = -1.2. Compute the 100-y flood using the Pearson type III
probability distribution.

10–16. Problem 7.14, 7.16, 7.19, 7.22, 7.26, 7.27, and 7.29 From Engineering
Hydrology by K. Subramanya (3rd edition)

Ponce’s book: http://ponce.sdsu.edu/enghydro/

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