Drought is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon that significantly affects human and environmental activity, and can be considered one of the most widespread and destructive natural disasters.

Statistical models called hidden Markov models are a recurring theme in computational biology. What are hidden Markov models, and why are they so useful for so many different problems?

Discrete-time hidden Markov models are a broadly useful class of latent variable models with applications in areas such as speech recognition, bioinformatics, and climate data analysis. It is common ...