New uncertainty concepts in hydrology and water resources : [proceedings of the International workshop on new uncertainty concept in hydrology and water ressources, held in Madrilin near Warsaw, Poland, from 24-26 september 1990

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.

this Is An Overview Of Uncertainty Techniques, Such As The Use Of Fractals And Climate Change In Hydrology.

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edited Proceedings Of The Title Workshop, Held In Madralin, Near Warsaw, Poland, September 1990. The Purpose Of The Workshop Was To Report On Recent Research, Including Work At Different Stages Of Progress. The Contributions Are Arranged In Six Sections: Introduction (hydrological Uncertainty In Perspective); Facets Of Uncertainty; Novel Approaches To Uncertainty--fractals, Fuzzy Sets And Pattern Recognition, Nonparametric Methods; Random Fields; Time Series And Stochastic Processes; And Risk, Reliability And Related Criteria. The Applications Discussed Pertain To Areas Of Strong Recent Interest, Such As Multifractals And Climate Change Impacts. No Index. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)

Different aspects and meanings of uncertainty are reviewed.