Section: New Results

Functional data analysis applied to hydrological or environnemental data

Participant : Sophie Dabo.

The new results concern particularly functional data analysis applied to hydrological or environnemental data. First in a recent paper ([16] ), two statistical techniques from the theory of functional data classification are adapted and applied for the analysis of flood hydrographs. Functional classification directly employs all data of a discharge time series and thus contains all available information on shape, peak, and timing. This potentially allows a better understanding and treatment of floods as well as other hydrological phenomena.