| Session Description |
This session aims to bring together scientists and practitioners in the field of statistical and stochastic hydrology and provide a forum for exchange of the latest developments in the field. Proposed presentations can deal with the general topic of the development and application of statistical and stochastic tools in hydrology. The applications can deal, among others, with one of the following topics: statistical modeling of the impact of climate change in hydrology, data acquisition and validation, hydrology of ungauged basins, hydrological frequency analysis, statistical modeling of extremes (floods and droughts), sediment transport, basin hydrology, monitoring network design, risk and reliability in hydrology, and time series analysis. The focus of the session has particular relevance given that the vulnerability of society to the impacts of hydrological events is increasing. This leads to an increasingly critical need to understand and manage the stochastic hydrological processes that control our environment. This session is an opportunity for engineers and scientists to meet and report on ways in which statistical analyses can be integrated in an effective and useful manner in order to meet the challenges being faced in the field of water resources and handle the uncertainties that are due to inherent randomness of the processes involved and to our inability to understand these processes completely. Statistical and stochastic approaches provide basic analytical tools to quantify and to incorporate uncertainties in the decision-making process in the field of water resources. This session will be a continuation to the session organized at AOGS-2006 with a similar title. |
