Growth curve
A growth curve is: ‘A dimensionless curve that expresses the ratio between the median annual flood (QMED) and the flow for another return period or exceedance probability, such as a 100-year (one per cent AEP) flow.’
Ref Culvert, screen and outfall manual, (CIRIA C786) published by CIRIA in 2019.
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