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Applied drought modeling, prediction, and mitigation /
Applied Drought Modelling, Prediction, and Mitigation provides a practical guide to new and recent methodologies for drought characterizations, change modeling, down-scaling, and future predictions. The modeling procedures covered by the book include recent advancements in regional drought extent, c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Applied Drought Modeling, Prediction, and Mitigation; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; 1.1. General; 1.2. Historical View; 1.3. Atmospheric Composition and Drought; 1.4. Drought Definitions; 1.5. Droughts, Aridity, and Desertification; 1.6. Drought Impacts; 1.7. Drought Regions; 1.8. Drought Types and Their Impacts; 1.8.1. Meteorological Drought; 1.8.2. Hydrological Drought; 1.8.3. Agricultural Drought; 1.8.4. Socioeconomic Drought; 1.8.5. Famine; 1.8.6. Water Shortages and Effects; 1.9. Significant Drought Mitigation Points.
- 2.14.1. Pros and Cons of SPI2.15. Typical Problems with Indicators and Triggers; 2.16. Percentiles for Drought Indicators and Triggers; 2.17. Triple Drought Indicator; 2.18. Fuzzy Logic Approach; 2.19. Continuity Curve; References; Chapter Three: Temporal Drought Analysis and Modeling; General; Numerical Definition of Droughts; The Threshold Level Method; Drought Forecasting; Drought Models; Drought Features; Temporal Drought Modeling Methodologies; First Order Markov Process Drought Properties; Drought Duration Statistical Properties; Critical Drought Duration Statistical Properties.
- Maximum Deficit SummationDependent Process Maximum Total Deficit; Critical Drought Duration; Enumeration Model of Independent Bernoulli Trials; Dependent Bernoulli Trials; Second-Order Markov Process Drought Properties; Seasonal Bernoulli Trials; Analytical Derivation of Longest Run-Length; Crossing Probabilities; Identically and Independently Distributed Variables; Unidentically and Independently Distributed Variables; Annual Flow Totals; Independent Processes; Normally Distributed Processes; Logarithmic Normally Distributed Processes; Drought Features Software.
- Independent Bernoulli Trials SoftwareDependent Bernoulli Trials Software; Identically and Independently Distributed Variable Software; Un-Identically and Independently Distributed Variable Software; References; Chapter Four: Regional Drought Analysis and Modeling; 4.1. General; 4.2. Regional Numerical Definition of Droughts; 4.3. Techniques to Predict Regional Droughts; 4.3.1. Statistical Regression; 4.3.2. Time Series Analysis; 4.3.3. Pattern Recognition; 4.3.4. Linear Discriminant and Nearest Neighbor Analysis; 4.3.5. Stochastic or Probabilistic Analysis; 4.4. Regional Drought Features.