Practical extreme value modelling of hydrological floods and droughts: A case study

Extremes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-30

  Engeland, Kolbjørn ^a,b   Hisdal, Hege ^b   Frigessi, Arnoldo ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Drought; Flood; Generalised extreme value distribution; Generalised Pareto distribution; Maximum likelihood; Penalized maximum likelihood; Probability weighted moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544363636     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-004-4727-5     Document Type: Article

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