TY - CHAP
T1 - Statistical Hydrology
AU - Grimaldi, S.
AU - Kao, S. C.
AU - Castellarin, A.
AU - Papalexiou, S. M.
AU - Viglione, A.
AU - Laio, F.
AU - Aksoy, H.
AU - Gedikli, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Hydrological phenomena such as precipitation, floods, and droughts are inherently random by nature. Due to the complexity of the hydrologic system, these physical processes are not fully understood and reliable deterministic mathematical models are still to be developed. Therefore, in order to provide useful analyses for designing hydraulic facilities and infrastructures, statistical approaches have been commonly adopted. This chapter describes some statistical topics widely used in hydrology. Among the large number of subjects available in literature, the attention is focalized on some of them particularly useful either for innovative hydrological analyses or for an appropriate application of common procedures.Precisely, the chapter describes in details the stationary hypothesis on hydrological time series, the univariate extreme value analysis procedure, the intensity-duration-frequency curves, the copula function useful for multivariate analysis, and the regional flood frequency analysis.
AB - Hydrological phenomena such as precipitation, floods, and droughts are inherently random by nature. Due to the complexity of the hydrologic system, these physical processes are not fully understood and reliable deterministic mathematical models are still to be developed. Therefore, in order to provide useful analyses for designing hydraulic facilities and infrastructures, statistical approaches have been commonly adopted. This chapter describes some statistical topics widely used in hydrology. Among the large number of subjects available in literature, the attention is focalized on some of them particularly useful either for innovative hydrological analyses or for an appropriate application of common procedures.Precisely, the chapter describes in details the stationary hypothesis on hydrological time series, the univariate extreme value analysis procedure, the intensity-duration-frequency curves, the copula function useful for multivariate analysis, and the regional flood frequency analysis.
KW - Copula function
KW - Extreme rainfall analysis
KW - Extreme value analysis
KW - Goodness-of-fit tests
KW - IDF - intensity duration frequency curves
KW - L-moments
KW - Multivariate distributions
KW - Nonstationary time series
KW - RFFA - regional flood frequency analysis
KW - Regional index flood
KW - Time series segmentation
KW - Trend detection
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U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-444-53199-5.00046-4
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-444-53199-5.00046-4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84908698460
SN - 9780444531995
VL - 2
SP - 479
EP - 517
BT - The Science of Hydrology
PB - Elsevier
ER -