A Bayesian statistical model for deriving the predictive distribution of hydroclimatic variables

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 11-12, 2014, Pages 2867-2883

  Tyralis, Hristos ^a   Koutsoyiannis, Demetris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Hurst Kolmogorov process; Hydroclimatic prediction; Hydrological statistics; Likelihood

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MARKOV CHAIN;

EID: 84901979923     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1804-y     Document Type: Article

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