New Uncertainty Concepts in Hydrology and Water Resources (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521036733)

This volume contains an overview of conventional and nonorthodox methods of representing and analyzing aspects of uncertainty in hydrology and water resources. Topics covered include: fractals, deterministic chaos, risk and reliability related criteria, fuzzy sets, pattern recognition, random fields, time series, stochastic modeling, outliers detection, nonparametric methods, information measures, and neural networks. Many new topics are discussed that make this book particularly valuable, and they include multifractals (applied to rain), a Bayesian relative information measure as a tool for analyzing the outputs of general circulation models, and a stochastic weather generator using atmospheric circulation patterns as a means to evaluate climate change.

Author: Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
ISBN-10: 0521036739
ISBN-13: 9780521036733
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2007
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.71d