California method

A form of frequency analysis which employs the return period, a parameter that measures the average time period between the occurrence of a quantity in hydrology and that of an equal or greater quantity, as the plotting position.

Related terms:

• California Current
• California fog
• Thiessen polygon method
• slice method
• parcel method
• induction method
• corona method
• three-point method
• Poulter seismic method
• hyperbolic distribution method