| AEP | Annual Exceedance Probability |
| AIC | Akaike Information Criteria |
| BIC | Bayesian Information Criteria |
| CDF | Cumulative Distribution Function |
| CFS | cubic feet per second |
| CHL | Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory |
| DE-MCz | Differential Evolution Markov Chain |
| ERDC | Engineer Research and Development Center |
| GEV | Generalized Extreme Value |
| GLO | Generalized Logistic |
| GPA | Generalized Pareto |
| H-S | Hirsch-Stedinger |
| iid | independent and identically distributed |
| LPIII | Log-Pearson Type III |
| MAP | maximum a posteriori |
| MCMC | Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| MGBT | Multiple Grubbs-Beck Test |
| MLE | Maximum Likelihood Estimation |
| MSE | mean-square error |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| P-P | Probability-Probability |
| PDF | Probability Density Function |
| PIII | Pearson Type III |
| PRNG | pseudo random number generator |
| Q-Q | Quantile-Quantile |
| RMSE | Root-Mean Squared Error |
| RMC | Risk Management Center |
| RMC-BestFit | Bayesian Estimation and Fitting Software |
| USACE | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
