Water Resources Applications Software

PEAKFQ

Flood-frequency analysis based on Bulletin 17B

Information

Summary of PEAKFQ

Version history

UNIX or DOS installation instructions (README file)

How to order U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation

How to register to receive software update and enhancement notices

Software

Selection of the following options preceded by a binary icon retrieves a compressed UNIX tar file or a Windows installation program. A README file containing installation instructions is included with each of the software distribution files. There are separate README files for the UNIX and DOS distributions.

The Free Software Foundation's gunzip is necessary to uncompress the UNIX tar files available below. However, some World Wide Web browsers automatically uncompress retrieved files. Thus, running gunzip as stated in the installation instructions may be unnecessary.

PEAKFQ compiled for...

Solaris (1.3MB)

MS-DOS console, run under Microsoft Windows (includes source) (2.51MB)

PEAKFQ source code for compilation under...

UNIX (705K)

The above software can also be accessed via anonymous FTP from water.usgs.gov in the /pub/software/surface_water/peakfq directory.

Documentation

How to order U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation

Thomas, W.O., Jr., Lumb, A.M., Flynn, K.M., and Kirby, W.H., 1998, User's manual for program PEAKFQ, annual flood frequency analysis using Bulletin 17B guidelines, written communication, 89 p.

User's Manual, Portable Document Format (PDF) (693K)
User's Manual, PostScript, gzip-compressed for UNIX (717K)
User's Manual, PostScript, self-extracting DOS executable (723K)

Kirby, W.H., 1981, Annual flood frequency analysis using U.S. Water Resources Council guidelines (program J407): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1336-I, WATSTORE User's Guide, v. 4, chap. I, sec. C, 56 p.

Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, 1982, Guidelines for determining flood-flow frequency: Bulletin 17B of the Hydrology Subcommittee, Office of Water Data Coordination, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va., 183 p.

The above report is available as report no. PB 86 15 7278 from:

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22161
(electronic mail: orders@ntis.fedworld.gov)

Tel: 1-800-553-NTIS (1-800-553-6847) or 703-605-6000
Fax: 703-605-6900

Point of contact for PEAKFQ:

U.S. Geological Survey

Hydrologic Analysis Software Support Program

437 National Center

Reston, VA 20192

(electronic mail: h2osoft@usgs.gov)