Horizon 1 1 17 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES Houille Blanche. Revue Internationale de l'Eau 5-13 extreme rainfall extreme flood reliability stability comparison of methods predictive distribution FRANCE 2014 fdi:010062075 FRE Houille Blanche. Revue Internationale de l'Eau 0018-6368 ISI:000336198200002 2 10.1051/1hb/2014010 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010062075 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2014/06/010062075.pdf Horizon (IRD) This paper presents a comparison of models for extreme rainfall and flood values. Based on a large set of thousands of rainfall and discharge data, the French ExtraFlo project showed that design estimate of extreme values based on the fitting of a distribution on a limited sample of maximum values is very inaccurate when only a few decades of observation are available. Some interesting alternatives are possible, using a regional approach, or historical data when available, or simulation methods, or sedimentological or geochemical signatures of flood deposits. 062 UR050