How should trends in hydrological extremes be estimated?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6756-6764

  Clarke, Robin T ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

extreme value distributions; hydrological extremes; Theil Sen; trend estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION OF TRENDS; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; THEIL-SEN; TREND ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; RAIN;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; LINEARITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RIVER FLOW; SAMPLING; TREND ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84885700677     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20485     Document Type: Article

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