By Harvey J. E. Rodda, Max A. Little

Choose up any hydrology textbook and it'll no longer be lengthy earlier than you come across pages directory sequences of equations representing complicated mathematical thoughts. scholars and practitioners of hydrology won't locate this very priceless, as their goal, more often than not, is to check and comprehend hydrology, and never to discover themselves faced with fabric that even scholars of arithmetic may locate tough. usually, equations seem to be copied and pasted into hydrological texts in an try and supply a extra rigorous medical foundation to the narrative. although, they're ordinarily incorrect, poorly defined, with out context or history, and likely to confuse and distance the reader than to enlighten and interact them within the subject.

Understanding Mathematical and Statistical suggestions in Hydrology provides complete and specified expositions of such equations and mathematical options, wide-spread in hydrology. not like different hydrological texts, rather than featuring summary mathematical hydrology, the basic arithmetic is defined with assistance from real-world hydrological examples.

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Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology: An Examples-based Approach

Decide up any hydrology textbook and it'll now not be lengthy prior to you come across pages directory sequences of equations representing complicated mathematical options. scholars and practitioners of hydrology won't locate this very worthy, as their objective, ordinarily, is to review and comprehend hydrology, and never to discover themselves faced with fabric that even scholars of arithmetic could locate difficult.

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When this is explained to people, most will surmise, correctly (presumably from experience), that the probability of there being 30 rain days in a row is extremely small. Because of this, if, in the unlikely event that 30 days of rain did actually occur, many will assume that the next 30 days will have to be dry in order to maintain the expected probability of 1/2. But this belief is false: according to the coin-flipping model, whether it rained yesterday or on any previous day has no bearing on whether it rains today.

7 Resampling methods: bootstrapping Earlier, we described how to estimate a parameter value given some data, for example the Gumbel parameters μ, σ. 5 Example bootstrap computations to estimate standard deviation of the average depth of rainfall from a synthetic time series. 49 Data values are in centimetre. Note that sampling with replacement means that data values from the original set usually appear more than once in each data set. set of draws from a random variable, and every set of data will be effectively unique.

The branch of mathematics and associated techniques used to quantify such extreme events is termed extreme value theory. Before diving into the maths associated with extreme events, it is worth discussing an example of such extreme occurrences from a hydrological perspective. 1 The Central European Floods, August 2002 In August 2002, countries in Central Europe were affected by the worst flooding in living memory. The flooding, in the basins of the Danube and Elbe, affected large parts of Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany and parts of other Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology: An Examples-Based Approach, First Edition.

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