The return period of a flood is the average interval, in years, between years whose annual peak equals or exceeds it. A flood of return period , a -year flood, has a probability of being equalled or exceeded in any one year.
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什么是 Return period?
Let events of a given kind — a flood above a discharge, a ground motion above a level, an earthquake above a magnitude — occur at a mean annual rate . Their return period is : the mean interval between two of them, and the inverse of their annual rate, not a timetable.