A multiple threshold method for fitting the generalized Pareto distribution to rainfall time series

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2559-2575

  Deidda, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS; DISCRETIZATIONS; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; MONTE CARLO; MULTIPLE THRESHOLD; OPTIMUM THRESHOLD; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; PARTIAL DURATION SERIES; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SCALE PARAMETER; SITE TO SITES; THRESHOLD EXCEEDANCE;

RAIN; REGIONAL PLANNING; TIME SERIES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 78650267193     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-2559-2010     Document Type: Article

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