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Statistical hydrology
Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2011-01-01
Sprache
English
Volume
2
Start Page
479
End Page
517
Citation
Treatise on water science Vol. 2: 479-517 (2011)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
ISBN
978-0-444-53195-7
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.
Subjects
Copula function
Extreme rainfall analysis
Extreme value analysis
Goodness-of-fit tests
IDF - intensity duration frequency curves
L-moments
Multivariate distributions
Nonstationary time series
Regional index flood
RFFA - regional flood frequency analysis
Time series segmentation
Trend detection
DDC Class
600: Technology