Annual runoff regional frequency analysis in Sicily

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 10-12, 2009, Pages 679-687

  Cannarozzo, M ^a   Noto, L V ^a   Viola, F ^a   La Loggia, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Annual runoff; Homogeneous region; Mantel test; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; COMMON FEATURES; DATA SETS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GOODNESS OF FIT; HOMOGENEOUS REGION; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; HYDROMETRIC STATIONS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MANTEL TEST; MANTEL TESTS; MATRIX APPROACH; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTING;

RUNOFF;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HEURISTICS; HOMOGENEITY; INDEX METHOD; MATRIX; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 68149182807     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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