Regional dry spells frequency analysis by L-moment and multivariate analysis

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2365-2380

  Modarres, Reza ^a  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drought; Dry spells; GLOG distribution; L Coefficient of skewness; L moments; Multivariate methods; Nonparametric tests; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DATA SETS; DROUGHT ANALYSIS; DRY EVENTS; DRY SPELLS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; KEY PRACTICES; L-MOMENTS; LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; MOMENT METHODS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE METHODS; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; RAIN GAUGES; SEMI-ARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ARID REGIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CURING; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ARID REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; DRY SEASON; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; SKEWNESS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ESFAHAN [ESFAHAN (PRV)]; ESFAHAN [IRAN]; IRAN;

EID: 77955058624     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9556-5     Document Type: Article

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