Geodesic
Heavy tailed durations of regional rainfall
Applications of Mathematics, Tome 53 (2008) no. 3, pp. 249-265

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Durations of rain events and drought events over a given region provide important information about the water resources of the region. Of particular interest is the shape of upper tails of the probability distributions of such durations. Recent research suggests that the underlying probability distributions of such durations have heavy tails of hyperbolic type, across a wide range of spatial scales from 2 km to 120 km. These findings are based on radar measurements of spatially averaged rain rate (SARR) over a tropical oceanic region. The present work performs a nonparametric inference on the Pareto tail-index of wet and dry durations at each of those spatial scales, based on the same data, and compares it with conclusions based on the classical Hill estimator. The results are compared and discussed.
DOI : 10.1007/s10492-008-0008-y
Classification : 62G32, 62P12, 86A05, 86A10
Keywords: wet and dry durations of regional rainfall; quantile multiscaling; heavy tails; Pareto tail-index; semi-parametric statistical inference 
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Pavlopoulos, Harry; Picek, Jan; Jurečková, Jana. Heavy tailed durations of regional rainfall. Applications of Mathematics, Tome 53 (2008) no. 3, pp. 249-265. doi: 10.1007/s10492-008-0008-y

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