Lan Zhang currently works as a post-doc research scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Texas A & M University. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Water Resources Sciences, and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She has written more than forty publications in the areas of hydrology, copulas, water quality, entropy, and water resources. She has been working on copulas and their application in hydrology and water resource engineering for more than ten years.
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1. Introduction 2. Preliminaries 3. Copulas and their properties 4. Symmetric Archimedean copulas 5. Asymmetric copulas: high dimension 6. Plackett copula 7. Non-Archimedean copulas: meta-elliptical copulas 8. Entropic copulas 9. Copulas in time series analysis 10. Rainfall frequency analysis 11. Flood frequency analysis 12. Water quality analysis 13. Drought analysis 14. Compound extremes 15. Network design 16. Suspended sediment yield analysis 17. Inter-basin transfer Index.
