Probabilistic drought classification using gamma mixture models

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 526, Issue , 2015, Pages 116-126

  Mallya, Ganeshchandra ^a   Tripathi, Shivam ^b   Govindaraju, Rao S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Droughts; Gamma mixture models; Probabilistic drought classification; Probabilistic SPI; Standardized Precipitation Index

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MIXTURES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DROUGHT CLASSIFICATIONS; GAMMA MIXTURES; PROBABILISTIC SPI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

EID: 84928528193     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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