Prediction of hydrological drought durations based on Markov chains: Case of the Canadian prairies;Prédétermination de la durée des sécheresses hydrologiques par les chaînes de markov dans les prairies canadiennes

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 705-722

  Sharma, T C ^a   Panu, U S ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrete autoregressive moving average (DARMA) models; Drought duration; Second order Markov chain; Standard hydrological index (SHI)

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE; CANADIAN PRAIRIE; CATCHMENT AREA; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DROUGHT DURATION; FIRST-ORDER; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; INITIAL VALUES; LOW THRESHOLDS; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; RANDOM MODEL; SECOND ORDERS; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; THRESHOLD LEVELS; TIME-SCALES; WEIBULL;

CATCHMENTS; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; STREAM FLOW; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CATCHMENT; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; PRAIRIE; PREDICTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; STREAMFLOW;

CANADA;

EID: 84861619928     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2012.672741     Document Type: Article

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