A study of national trend and variation in UK floods

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-182

  Robson, Alice J ^a   Jones, Tanya K ^a   Reed, Duncan W ^a   Bayliss, Adrian C ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annual maxima; Climate change; Climate fluctuations; Flood data sets, UK; Floods; Locally weighted regression smoothing (loess); Non stationarity; Peaks over threshold, (POT); Smoothing techniques; Trend(s); Trends; UK

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL SERIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; FLOOD;

UK;

EID: 0031982230     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0088(199802)18:2<165::aid-joc230>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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