A discrete Bayesian network to investigate suspended sediment concentrations in an Alpine proglacial zone

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3772-3784

  Mount, Nick ^a   Stott, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Proglacial; Random variable; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CATCHMENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; GLACIERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; PARKS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR TEMPERATURES; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN NETWORK; BAYESIAN NETWORK (BN); CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DATA VOLUMES; GOODNESS OF FITS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; MONITORING SITES; NATIONAL PARKS; PROGLACIAL; RANDOM VARIABLE; RATING CURVES; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPERATURE RANGES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ECRINS NATIONAL PARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 52149099710     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6981     Document Type: Article

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