Risk Assessment of Droughts in Gujarat Using Bivariate Copulas

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3301-3327

  Ganguli, Poulomi ^a   Reddy, M Janga ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Copulas; Drought; Hydrological extremes; Standardized precipitation index; Tail dependence

Indexed keywords

AREAL PRECIPITATION; BIVARIATE; BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION; COPULAS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT MEASURE; HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; KERNEL DENSITY; LOG-NORMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; NON-PARAMETRIC; RETURN PERIODS; RISK-BASED; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TAIL DEPENDENCE; TIME-SCALES; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; TIMESCALE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

GUJARAT; INDIA; KUTCH; SAURASHTRA;

EID: 84865490815     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0073-6     Document Type: Article

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