The intrinsic dependence structure of peak, volume, duration, and average intensity of hyetographs and hydrographs

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3423-3442

  Serinaldi, Francesco ^a,b   Kilsby, Chris G ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bootstrap; copulas; dependence structures; hydrographs; hyetographs; multivariate distributions

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

BOOTSTRAP; COPULAS; DEPENDENCE STRUCTURES; HYDROGRAPHS; HYETOGRAPHS; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS;

RAIN;

DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROGRAPH; MODELING; RAINFALL; SAMPLING; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878972256     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20221     Document Type: Article

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