Multivariate homogeneity testing in a northern case study in the province of Quebec, Canada

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1690-1700

  Chebana, Fateh ^a   Ouarda, Taha B M J ^a   Bruneau, Pierre ^b   Barbet, Marc ^b   El Adlouni, Salaheddine ^a   Latraverse, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC   (Canada)

^b HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

L moments; Multvariate homogeneity testing; Quebec

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE; DATA SETS; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD PEAK; HETEROGENEOUS REGION; HOMOGENEITY TESTING; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; HYDROGRAPH; L-MOMENTS; MULTVARIATE HOMOGENEITY TESTING; QUEBEC; QUEBEC , CANADA; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REGIONAL HOMOGENEITY; SIMULATION STUDIES; UNIVARIATE;

FLOOD CONTROL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; FLOOD; HOMOGENEITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 65949086157     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7304     Document Type: Article

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