Fitting drought duration and severity with two-dimensional copulas

Water Resources Management

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 795-815

  Shiau, J T ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bivariate distribution; Copula; Drought; IFM method; Return period; Standardized precipitation index

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION; COPULA; DROUGHT DURATION; INFERENCE FUNCTION FOR MARGINS METHOD; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

CURVE FITTING; DROUGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DROUGHT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STANDARDIZATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33747607479     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-005-9008-9     Document Type: Article

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