Comparison of the MK test and EMD method for trend identification in hydrological time series

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 510, Issue , 2014, Pages 293-298

  Sang, Yan Fang ^a   Wang, Zhonggen ^a   Liu, Changming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Empirical mode decomposition; Hydrological time series analysis; Mann Kendall test; Statistical significance; Trend identification

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; EFFECTIVE POWER; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL TIME-SERIES; MANN-KENDALL TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

TESTING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; TESTING METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892656576     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.12.039     Document Type: Article

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