Statistical characteristics of riverflow variability in the Odra River basin, southwestern Poland

Polish Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 387-396

  Sen, Asok K ^a   Niedzielski, Tomasz ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

Author keywords

Extreme value distributions; Odra River; Riverflow; Stationarity; Time series; Trend

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952934089     PISSN: 12301485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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