Drought frequency analysis with a hidden state Markov model

Proceedings of the 2004 World Water and Environmetal Resources Congress: Critical Transitions in Water and Environmetal Resources Management

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2078-2087

  Rasmussen, Peter F ^a   Akintuǧ, Bertuǧ ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE REGIME; DROUGHT FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME SERIES MODELS;

DROUGHT;

EID: 23844559296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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