This book offers a comprehensive overview of time series characteristics in hydrology. Covers 31 statistical tests for determining time series characteristics, includes stochastic models for time series, and demonstrates their application through case studies.

This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture. The main focus of this book is to address the current issues and trends along with future prospects and challenges in adopting salient agricultural management practices in drylands globally under a climate-change scenario. Climate change and global warming have profound repercussions on increasing frequency, severity, and duration of droughts and/or floods, which may have...