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.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Statistical Hydrology
1.1 Hydrologic Processes and Phenomena
1.2 Hydrological Variables
1.3 Hydrological Series
1.4 Population and Samples
1.5 Hydrological Data
Chapter 2: Preliminary Analysis of Hydrological Data
2.1 Graphical Depiction of Hydrological Data
2.2 Numeric Summaries and Descriptive Statistics
2.3 Exploratory Methods
2.4 Associations between Variables
Chapter 3: Elementary Theory of Probabilitl3§
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