Abstract— The paper proposes an approach for modeling inter-arrival time of floods. It is shown that the inter-arrival time between floods can be modeled by a newly proposed type of distribution called ST distributions. The corresponding stochastic point process registering the appearances of the floods is called ST process. ST distribution and process are defined and their application to modeling flood appearances is demonstrated. The proposed approach is applied for modeling inter-arrival time between two consecutive floods based on a specific type of stochastic distributions and processes.
Index Terms— Natural disasters risk, flood, ST distribution, ST process.
P. Stoynov is with the Sofia University St. Kl. Ohridski, Bulgaria (e-mail: todorov@feb.uni-sofia.bg).
P. Zlateva is with the ISER, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1113, Bl. 2, Bulgaria (e-mail: plamzlateva@abv.bg).
D. Velev is with the University of National and World Economy, Sofia 1700, Bulgaria (e-mail: dgvelev@unwe.bg).
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Cite: P. Stoynov, P. Zlateva, and D. Velev, " An Approach for Modeling Inter-arrival Time of Floods," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 267-271, 2015.