Assessing conditional extremal risk of flooding in Puerto Rico

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 399-410

  de Melo Mendes, Beatriz Vaz ^a,c   Pericchi, Luis Raúl ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asymptotic dependence; Conditional extreme value models; Hydrological risks

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; RIVERS;

ASYMPTOTIC DEPENDENCE; CONDITIONAL EXTREME VALUE MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL RISKS; LONG-TERM ESTIMATION; MODELING STRATEGY; MULTIVARIATE EXTREMES; MULTIVARIATE OBSERVATIONS; TRADITIONAL MODELS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 59149106980     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-008-0220-z     Document Type: Article

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