Copula-based risk evaluation of droughts across the Pearl River basin, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 119-131

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Xiao, Mingzhong ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b   Chen, Xiaohong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 84871932649     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0656-4     Document Type: Article

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