Probabilistic behavior of a regional envelope curve

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Castellarin, Attilio ^a   Vogel, Richard M ^b   Matalas, Nicholas C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Tufts University   (Italy)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

EXTREME FLOOD EVENTS; INTERSITE CORRELATION; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; REGIONAL ENVELOPE CURVE (REC);

FLOODS;

EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 22444438521     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003042     Document Type: Article

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