A bivariate pareto model for drought

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 811-822

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bivariate Pareto distribution; Drought modeling; Product of random variables; Ratio of random variables; Return periods; Sumof random variables

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE PARETO DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCT OF RANDOM VARIABLES; RATIO OF RANDOM VARIABLES; RETURN PERIODS; SUMOF RANDOM VARIABLES;

DROUGHT; EARTH SCIENCES; FLOW OF WATER; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RANDOM PROCESSES; VEGETATION; WATER;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

DROUGHT; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649622642     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-008-0260-4     Document Type: Article

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