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Special properties and models

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This chapter concerns properties of special significance in hydrology. In the general class of crossing properties, theoretical aspects of runs, run lengths and sums are explained, and their practical relevance is discussed. Reservoir storage analysis which follows includes the Rippl diagram and the concepts of deficit and range. In this context the Hurst phenomenon, which has been an important subject of research and some controversy within the hydrological world and outside, is described, and the associated theoretical treatment of the rescaled range is taken up. Fractional gaussian processes which maintain the Hurst effect over very long time spans are explained. The final sections pertain to models that generate fractional noise and the broken-line model which is outlined. To aid the practitioner, some computer subroutines are provided.

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Kottegoda, N.T. (1980). Special properties and models. In: Stochastic Water Resources Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03467-3_5

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