Extreme rainfall analysis by a stochastic model: Impact of the copula choice on the sub-daily rainfall generation

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1479-1492

  Cantet, Philippe ^a   Arnaud, Patrick ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Copula; Dependence; Evaluation framework; Extreme rainfall analysis; Rainfall stochastic generator

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLAYTON COPULAS; COPULA; DEPENDENCE; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATIONS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; EXTREME RAINFALL; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; RAINFALL GENERATION;

RAIN;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM;

FRANCE;

EID: 84903541326     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-014-0852-0     Document Type: Article

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