Flood trends and variability in the Mekong river

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-418

  Delgado, J M ^a   Apel, H ^a   Merz, B ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION OF TIME; GAUGING STATIONS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; HYDROLOGICAL TIME-SERIES; LOCATION PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; WAVELET POWER SPECTRA;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN; TIME SERIES;

FLOODS;

EID: 77949542776     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-407-2010     Document Type: Article

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