Regional frequency analysis conditioned on large-scale atmospheric or oceanic fields

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9536-9554

  Renard, Benjamin ^a   Lall, Upmanu ^b  

^a CENTRE DE LYON VILLEURBANNE   (France)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; climate variability; hydrological extremes; probabilistic prediction; regional frequency analysis; uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; FORECASTING; INFERENCE ENGINES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FRANCE;

EID: 85027937787     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016277     Document Type: Article

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