Techniques for estimating flood discharges for unregulated streams in New Mexico

Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-24
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Abstract

Equations for estimating flood magnitudes at selected recurrence intervals from 2 to 500 years were developed using multiple-regression analyses. These equations relate flood magnitudes to basin characteristics, contributing drainage area and site altitude, and only are applicable to unregulated streams in New Mexico that are relatively unaffected by urban runoff. Estimates of floods at or near gaged sites may be computed with an equation that adjusts discharges developed with the regression equations using station-specific discharges. (USGS)

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Techniques for estimating flood discharges for unregulated streams in New Mexico
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 82-24
DOI 10.3133/wri8224
Year Published 1982
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Description iv, 42 p.
Country United States
State New Mexico
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