Mauro da Cunha Naghettini ... 660 pages - Publisher: Springer; (October, 2016) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 3319435604 - ISBN-13: 978-3319435602.
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.