Articles | Volume 373
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-373-175-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-373-175-2016
12 May 2016
 | 12 May 2016

An update on multivariate return periods in hydrology

Benedikt Gräler, Andrea Petroselli, Salvatore Grimaldi, Bernard De Baets, and Niko Verhoest

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Many hydrological studies are devoted to the identification of events that are expected to occur on average within a certain time span. While this topic is well established in the univariate case, recent advances focus on a multivariate characterization of events based on copulas. Following a previous study, we show how the definition of the survival Kendall return period fits into the set of multivariate return periods.