Regional rainfall frequency analysis for the state of Michigan

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 437-449

  Trefry, Christopher M ^a,b   Watkins Jr , David W ^c   Johnson, Dennis ^d  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^d JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Michigan; Rainfall duration; Rainfall frequency; Rainfall intensity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANNUAL MAXIMUM SERIES (AMS); MICHIGAN; PARTIAL DURATION SERIES (PDS); RAINFALL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RAINFALL INTENSITY DURATION FREQUENCY;

HYDROLOGY;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17244383100     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2005)10:6(437)     Document Type: Article

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