Multivariate drought characteristics using trivariate Gaussian and Student t copulas

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1175-1190

  Ma, Mingwei ^a,b   Song, Songbai ^a   Ren, Liliang ^b   Jiang, Shanhu ^b   Song, Jiali ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Copulas; Droughts; Goodness of fit; Joint probabilities; Kendall's return period (KRP); Multivariate characteristics

Indexed keywords

COPULAS; GOODNESS OF FIT; JOINT PROBABILITY; MULTIVARIATE CHARACTERISTICS; RETURN PERIODS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; STUDENTS; WATER RESOURCES;

DROUGHT;

BOOTSTRAPPING; DROUGHT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; WEI BASIN;

EID: 84875663952     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8432     Document Type: Article

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