The focus of this study is to evaluate: (1) “mixtures” of flood peak distributions, (2) upper tail and scaling properties of the flood peak distributions, and (3) presence of temporal nonstationarities in the flood peak records.

Villarini, G., J.A. Smith, M.L. Baeck, and W.F. Krajewski. “Examining Regional Flood Frequency in the U.S. Midwest,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 47, 3, pp. 447–463, 2011.