An uncertain journey around the tails of multivariate hydrological distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6527-6547

  Serinaldi, Francesco ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

copulas; Joint confidence intervals; Monte Carlo simulation; multivariate design events; multivariate frequency analysis; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COPULAS; JOINT CONFIDENCE; MULTIVARIATE DESIGN; MULTIVARIATE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

DESIGN; EXTRAPOLATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885051397     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20531     Document Type: Article

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