Transformation of point rainfall to areal rainfall: Intensity-duration-frequency curves

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 204, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 150-167

  Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,b   Blöschl, Günter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Areal reduction factors; Catchments; Extreme value distributions; Flood estimation; IDF curves; Rainfall fields

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY;

AREAL REDUCTION FACTORS; CATCHMENTS; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY DURATION FREQUENCY CURVES;

RAIN;

RAINFALL; SPATIAL CORRELATION;

EID: 0032579427     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(97)00117-0     Document Type: Article

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