Characterisation of Drought Properties with Bivariate Copula Analysis

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4183-4207

  Yusof, Fadhilah ^a   Hui Mean, Foo ^a   Suhaila, Jamaludin ^a   Yusof, Zulkifli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Copula; Drought; Duration; Galambos; Kendall's ; Severity; Standardised precipitation index

Indexed keywords

COPULA; DURATION; GALAMBOS; PRECIPITATION INDICES; SEVERITY;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RAIN; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 84883770345     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0402-4     Document Type: Article

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