Abstract

Reed, D.W. 2001a. Natural hazards and the analysis of extremes. Chapter 7 in: Risk assessment for environmental professionals (eds Pollard, S., Guy, J.), CIWEM, 57-62.

... introduces a six-step approach to the estimation of extremes, illustrated in Section 7.2 by a case study in design flood estimation. A more general discussion follows in Section 7.3.