Correlation Coefficient‐Based Information Criterion for Quantification of Dependence Characteristics in Hydrological Time Series

Abstract

Generally, dependence means that the value of a hydrological variable at a certain time is not random but related to its previous values (Moravej & Khalili, 2015). For example, drought or flood events usually have a propensity to occur in clusters (Moravej & Khalili, 2015;Paschalis et al., 2012;Tan et al., 2017). Determining the dependence characteristics of hydrological processes is necessary to understand their complex variations and for hydrological calculation and design (