title: Discussion of the paper "Cost effective policies for alternative distributions of stochastic water pollution" by Gren, Destouni and Tempone.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics and Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 1155 Athens, Greece. tkampas@aua.gr
authors.forename: Athanasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kampas
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adamidis
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004777:Environment; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000032:analysis*; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014872:Water Movements; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D009584:Nitrogen