Temporal variations of extreme precipitation events in the United States: 1895-2000

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Kunkel, Kenneth E ^a   Easterling, David R ^b   Redmond, Kelly ^c   Hubbard, Kenneth ^d  

^a ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

TEMPORAL VARIATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

EXTREME EVENT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346216927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018052     Document Type: Article

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