Projecting aridity from statistically downscaled and bias-corrected variables for the Gediz Basin, Turkey

Sustainable Management of Large Scale Irrigation Systems: A Decision Support Model for Gediz Basin, Turkey

Bias-corrected AIC for selecting variables in Poisson regression models

ABSTRACT In the present paper, we consider the variable selection problem in Poisson regression models. Akaike’s information criterion (AIC) is the most commonly applied criterion for selecting variables. However, the bias of the AIC cannot be ignored, especially in small samples. We herein propose a new bias-corrected version of the AIC that is constructed by stochastic expansion of the maximu...

Multi-criteria decision making for water resource management: a case study of the Gediz River Basin, Turkey

In this study, a water resource management model that facilitates indicator-based decisions, with respect to environmental, social and economic dimensions in a multiple criteria perspective, is developed for the Gediz River Basin in Turkey. The basic input of the proposed model is the quantity of surface water that is mainly allocated to irrigation purposes. The model has been applied under 3 d...

Analysis for sustainability in management of water scarce basins: the case of the Gediz River Basin in Turkey

River basins in many Eastern and Southern Mediterranean countries suffer from water scarcity due to rapid demographic and economic development, urbanization, industrialization, tourism, and inefficient agricultural activities, which is often the dominant water user. The Gediz River Basin along the Aegean coast of Turkey demonstrates the entire range of prototypical water management problems and...

Effects of Spatial and Temporal Aggregation on the Accuracy of Statistically Downscaled Precipitation Estimates in the Upper Colorado River Basin

To test the accuracy of statistically downscaled precipitation estimates from numerical weather prediction models, a set of experiments to study what space and time scales are appropriate to obtain downscaled precipitation forecasts with maximum skill have been carried out. Fourteen-day forecasts from the 1998 version of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Medium-Range Fore...