The ICSH Commission, thanks to the kind invitation of the EGU Precipitation and Climate Division, co-sponsored the session HS7.5/NP8.3 “Hydroclimatic stochastics”
Convener: S. Grimaldi
Co-Conveners: D. Koutsoyiannis , A. A. Carsteanu , X. L. Wang.
The session involved 6 oral contributions and 12 posters (listed at the end of the report) and was attended by more than 100 people.
All the authors delivered interesting presentations underlined by a rich discussion.

Vienna, April 27, 2012
Salvatore Grimaldi

List of Oral and Poster contributions
(with links to the pdf presentation files)

Oral Session
Chairperson: Alin Carsteanu

 Joint return periods in hydrology: a critical and practical review focusing on the synthetic design hydrograph estimation
S. Vandenberghe, B. Graeler, M.J. van den Berg, S. Grimaldi, A. Petroselli, B. De Baets, and N.E.C. Verhoest

Fitting asymmetrical copulas for rainfall downscaling
M.J. van den Berg, N.E.C. Verhoest, and B. De Baets

Climate-informed stochastic hydrological modeling: Incorporating decadal-scale variability using paleo data
B Henley, M Thyer, and G Kuczera
see the presentation

A global survey on the distribution of annual maxima of daily rainfall: Gumbel or Fréchet?
S.M. Papalexiou and D. Koutsoyiannis
see the presentation

Deciphering scale-dependencies and trend changes in hydrological time series using Bayesian inversion
N. Schütz, N. Makarava, and M. Holschneider

A maximum likelihood approach to jointly estimating seasonal and annual flood frequency distributions
E. Baratti, A. Montanari, A. Castellarin, J.L. Salinas, A. Viglione, and G. Blöschl

Poster Session
Chairperson: Demetris Koutsoyiannis

 Stochastic physical ecohydrologic-based model for estimating irrigation requirement
H. Alizadeh and S.J. Mousavi
see the poster

A Bayesian approach to hydroclimatic prognosis using the Hurst-Kolmogorov stochastic process
H. Tyralis and D. Koutsoyiannis
see the poster

On statistical biases and their common neglect
E. Houdalaki, M. Basta, N. Boboti, N. Bountas, E. Dodoula, T. Iliopoulou, S. Ioannidou, K. Kassas, S. Nerantzaki, E. Papatriantafyllou, K. Tettas, D. Tsirantonaki, S.M. Papalexiou, and D. Koutsoyiannis
see the poster

Space-time variability of random cascade model parameters for rainfall disaggregation
H. Müller and U. Haberlandt
see the poster

Spectrum vs Climacogram
P. Dimitriadis, D. Koutsoyiannis, and Y. Markonis

Study on climate change in the source region of the Yangtze River from 1957 to 2010
K. Qian, J. Lv, X. Wang, and L. Wan
see the poster

A stochastic methodology for simulating long-term hourly time series of meteorological variables across a continuous of elevations
S. Fatichi, P. Burlando, V.Y. Ivanov, and E. Caporali

Uncertainty in rainfall-runoff modelling: an application of GLUE approach to the Rome's urban area.
S. Spina, F. Lombardo, E. Ridolfi, F. Russo, and F. Napolitano

MCMC estimation of the V-copula and t-V-copula with censored data
J. Rodriguez and A. Bardossy

HyetosR: An R package for temporal stochastic simulation of rainfall at fine time scales
P. Kossieris, D. Koutsoyiannis, C. Onof, H. Tyralis, and A. Efstratiadis
see the poster

Stochastic Downscaling for Hydrodynamic and Ecological Modeling of Lakes
D. Schlabing, M. Eder, M. Frassl, K. Rinke, and A. Bárdossy
see the poster

Fractional Lévy Motions: A fresh look at dependence and climate-scale variability
B. Escobedo-Trujillo and A. A. Carsteanu

SOME PICTURES FROM THE SESSION

S. Vandenberghe

M.J. van den Berg

M. Thyer

S.M. Papalexiou

N. Schütz (?)

E. Baratti

H. Alizadeh

H. Tyralis

K. Tettas

E. Ridolfi, S. Spina

J. Rodriguez
 

P. Kossieris

D. Schlabing, M. Eder, M. Frassl