Rating curve uncertainty and change detection in discharge time series: Case study with 44-year historic data from the Nyangores River, Kenya

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2509-2523

  Juston, John ^a   Jansson, Per Erik ^a   Gustafsson, David ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discharge uncertainty; Flow duration curve; Hydrological change; Hypothesis testing; Rating curve

Indexed keywords

EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; FLOW DURATION CURVE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RATING CURVE; STATISTICAL ERROR MODEL; SUBJECTIVE UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY INTERVALS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RANDOM ERRORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

RATING;

DISCHARGE; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RATING CURVE; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

KENYA; MARA RIVER;

EID: 84892443876     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9786     Document Type: Article

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