Multivariate return periods in hydrology: A critical and practical review focusing on synthetic design hydrograph estimation

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1281-1296

  Graler B ^a   Van Den Berg, M J ^b   Vandenberghe, S ^b   Petroselli, A ^c   Grimaldi, S ^c,d,e   De Baets, B ^f   Verhoest, N E C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Department of Mathematical Modelling Statistics and Bioinformatics ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DEPENDENCE STRUCTURES; HYDROGRAPH ESTIMATION; KENDALL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIVARIATE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SIMULATED DISCHARGES;

DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DESIGN; HYDROGRAPH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK DISCHARGE; RETURN PERIOD;

EID: 84878978436     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1281-2013     Document Type: Review

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