Discussion of the paper 'Cost effective policies for alternative distributions of stochastic water pollution' by Gren, Destouni and Tempone☆
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Athanasios Kampas; Konstantinos Adamidis
- Source
- Journal of Environmental Management. 74:383-388
- Subject
- Stochastic Processes
Models, Statistical
Environmental Engineering
Nitrogen
Computer science
Pollutant transport
Probabilistic logic
General Medicine
Environment
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
computer.software_genre
Environmental data
Software framework
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Water Movements
Econometrics
Probability distribution
Water pollution
Waste Management and Disposal
computer
Water Pollutants, Chemical
- Language
- ISSN
- 0301-4797
This discussion addresses some aspects of a recent paper appearing in this journal which investigates cost effective coastal water management based on different assumptions of the probability distributions (normal and log-normal) of pollutant transport. We also suggest an alternative approach to overcome the technical problems of using the theoretical correct distribution for characterising environmental data (log-normal) within a probabilistic programming framework.