Handling uncertainty in bivariate quantile estimation - An application to flood hazard analysis in the Mekong Delta

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 527, Issue , 2015, Pages 704-717

  Dung, Nguyen Viet ^a,c   Merz, B ^a,d   Bardossy A ^b   Apel, H ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c Southern Institute of Water Resources Research SIWRR   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bivariate flood quantile; Bootstrapping; Copulas; Mekong Delta; Uncertainty estimation

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HAZARDS; HYDROLOGY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; COPULAS; FLOOD QUANTILES; MEKONG DELTA; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PEAK DISCHARGE; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 84930665602     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.05.033     Document Type: Article

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