Markov Chains of Different Orders for Streamflow Drought Analysis

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3441-3457

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Drought frequency; Expected residence time; Markov chain; Steady state probabilities; Streamflow drought index

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CHAINS; DISASTERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; STREAM FLOW; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; DROUGHT INDICES; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; RESIDENCE TIME; STATISTICAL STRUCTURES; STEADY STATE PROBABILITIES;

DROUGHT;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; DROUGHT; MARKOV CHAIN; PROBABILITY; RESIDENCE TIME; STREAMFLOW;

IRAN; KARKHEH BASIN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84929955167     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-1010-2     Document Type: Article

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