Assessing Multi-site Drought Connections in Iran Using Empirical Copula

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 469-482

  Shiau, Jenq Tzong ^a   Modarres, Reza ^b   Nadarajah, Saralees ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drought; Empirical copula; Iran; Standardized precipitation index (SPI); Tail dependence coefficient

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

BIVARIATE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; DROUGHT CHARACTERISTICS; EMPIRICAL COPULA; IRAN; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STOCHASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; TAIL DEPENDENCE;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

AHWAZ; ESFAHAN [IRAN]; IRAN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84865991986     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-012-9318-2     Document Type: Article

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