RT Report
T1 Water Management of the Amazon Basin
K1 water management
K1 river basin
K1 forest
K1 water resources development
K1 water quality management
K1 climate change
SN 92-9089-017-7
YR 1991
FD 1991
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/30384
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/30384
NO This paper analyzes annual maximum precipitation series for the Xingu and Tapajos basins located both in the Amazon basin. The analysis has the objective of indicating a probability distribution function that can be used in design flood calculations for spillways of large dams in the region. Due to the short length of the records in the region and the robustness of the estimates of population descriptors (ex: variation and skewness coefficients) based on probability weighted moments, this approach is adopted as the main methodology.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 24, 2026