Extreme streamflow drought in the Karkheh river basin (Iran): probabilistic and regional analyses

Natural Hazards

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 327-346

  Zamani, Reza ^a   Tabari, Hossein ^b   Willems, Patrick ^b,c  

^a SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Homogeneity measure; Hydrological drought; L moments; Quantile estimation; Statistical distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925483316     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1492-x     Document Type: Article

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