Climate informed flood frequency analysis and prediction in Montana using hierarchical Bayesian modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Kwon, Hyun Han ^a,b   Brown, Casey ^c   Lall, Upmanu ^a,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology   (South Korea)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RISK MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLOOD RISK; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

FLOODS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43549117060     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032220     Document Type: Article

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