Uncertainty in calibrating generalised Pareto distribution to rainfall extremes in Lake Victoria basin

Hydrology Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 356-376

  Onyutha, Charles ^a   Willems, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Extreme value analysis; Generalised pareto distribution; Lake victoria basin; Parameter estimation; Rainfall extremes; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; GENERALISED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LAKE VICTORIA; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFALL EXTREMES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 84930526372     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2014.052     Document Type: Article

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