Probabilistic rainfall thresholds for flood forecasting: Evaluating different methodologies for modelling rainfall spatial correlation (or dependence)

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2046-2055

  Golian, Saeed ^a   Saghafian, Bahram ^b   Elmi, Mohammad ^c   Maknoon, Reza ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Copula; Flood forecasting; Monte Carlo simulation; Rainfall threshold; Spatial dependency

Indexed keywords

2-COPULA; BIVARIATE; COPULA; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD PEAK DISCHARGE; GAUSSIAN COPULA; HIT RATE; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PEAK DISCHARGE; PERFORMANCE BASED; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SIMULATED EVENTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL DEPENDENCY; TARGET SITES; TIME TO PEAK; TOTAL RAINFALL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD FORECASTING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79959236434     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7956     Document Type: Article

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