Nonstationarity of Hydrological Records and Recent Trends in Trend Analysis: A State-of-the-art Review

Environmental Processes

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 527-542

  Bayazit, Mehmetcik ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climate change; Frequency analysis; Hydrological design; Nonstationarity; Return period; Risk; Statistical significance; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NON-STATIONARITIES; RETURN PERIODS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREND ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN METHOD; FLOOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOW FLOW; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RETURN PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84950341696     PISSN: 21987491     EISSN: 21987505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40710-015-0081-7     Document Type: Article

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