Stochastic Hydrology and its Use in Water Resources Systems Simulation and Optimization
Stochastic Hydrology and its Use in Water Resources Systems Simulation and Optimization

Author: J.B. Marco

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9401116970

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Stochastic hydrology is an essential base of water resources systems analysis, due to the inherent randomness of the input, and consequently of the results. These results have to be incorporated in a decision-making process regarding the planning and management of water systems. It is through this application that stochastic hydrology finds its true meaning, otherwise it becomes merely an academic exercise. A set of well known specialists from both stochastic hydrology and water resources systems present a synthesis of the actual knowledge currently used in real-world planning and management. The book is intended for both practitioners and researchers who are willing to apply advanced approaches for incorporating hydrological randomness and uncertainty into the simulation and optimization of water resources systems. (abstract) Stochastic hydrology is a basic tool for water resources systems analysis, due to inherent randomness of the hydrologic cycle. This book contains actual techniques in use for water resources planning and management, incorporating randomness into the decision making process. Optimization and simulation, the classical systems-analysis technologies, are revisited under up-to-date statistical hydrology findings backed by real world applications.

Stochastic Methods in Hydrology
Stochastic Methods in Hydrology

Author: Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9789810233679

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This book communicates some contemporary mathematical and statistical developments in river basin hydrology as they pertain to space-time rainfall, spatial landform and network structures and their role in understanding averages and fluctuations in the hydrologic water balance of river basins. While many of the mathematical and statistical nations have quite classical mathematical roots, the river basin data structure has led to many variations on the problems and theory.

Advances In Data-based Approaches For Hydrologic Modeling And Forecasting
Advances In Data-based Approaches For Hydrologic Modeling And Forecasting

Author: Bellie Sivakumar

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9814464759

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This book comprehensively accounts the advances in data-based approaches for hydrologic modeling and forecasting. Eight major and most popular approaches are selected, with a chapter for each — stochastic methods, parameter estimation techniques, scaling and fractal methods, remote sensing, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computing, wavelets, and nonlinear dynamics and chaos methods. These approaches are chosen to address a wide range of hydrologic system characteristics, processes, and the associated problems. Each of these eight approaches includes a comprehensive review of the fundamental concepts, their applications in hydrology, and a discussion on potential future directions.

Random Functions and Hydrology
Random Functions and Hydrology

Author: Rafael L. Bras

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780486676265

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Advanced-level view of the tools of random processes and field theory as applied to the analysis and synthesis of hydrologic phenomena. Topics include time-series analysis, optimal estimation, optimal interpolation (Kriging), frequency-domain analysis of signals, and linear systems theory. Techniques and examples chosen to illustrate the latest advances in hydrologic signal analysis. Useable as graduate-level text in water resource systems, stochastic hydrology, random processes and signal analysis. 202 illustrations.

Fundamentals of Statistical Hydrology
Fundamentals of Statistical Hydrology

Author: Mauro Naghettini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-26

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 3319435612

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This textbook covers the main applications of statistical methods in hydrology. It is written for upper undergraduate and graduate students but can be used as a helpful guide for hydrologists, geographers, meteorologists and engineers. The book is very useful for teaching, as it covers the main topics of the subject and contains many worked out examples and proposed exercises. Starting from simple notions of the essential graphical examination of hydrological data, the book gives a complete account of the role that probability considerations must play during modelling, diagnosis of model fit, prediction and evaluating the uncertainty in model predictions, including the essence of Bayesian application in hydrology and statistical methods under nonstationarity. The book also offers a comprehensive and useful discussion on subjective topics, such as the selection of probability distributions suitable for hydrological variables. On a practical level, it explains MS Excel charting and computing capabilities, demonstrates the use of Winbugs free software to solve Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) simulations, and gives examples of free R code to solve nonstationary models with nonlinear link functions with climate covariates.

Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic Variables
Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic Variables

Author: Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 1022

ISBN-13: 9780784415177

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This book provides a compilation of statistical analysis methods used to analyze and assess critical variables in the hydrological cycle.

Chaos in Hydrology
Chaos in Hydrology

Author: Bellie Sivakumar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-16

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9048125529

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This authoritative book presents a comprehensive account of the essential roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in understanding, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic systems. This is done through a systematic presentation of: (1) information on the salient characteristics of hydrologic systems and on the existing theories for their modeling; (2) the fundamentals of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories, methods for chaos identification and prediction, and associated issues; (3) a review of the applications of chaos theory in hydrology; and (4) the scope and potential directions for the future. This book bridges the divide between the deterministic and the stochastic schools in hydrology, and is well suited as a textbook for hydrology courses.