Extremes of daily rainfall in West Central Florida

Climatic Change

Volumn 69, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 325-342

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS;

DAILY RAINFALL; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUES (GEV);

RAIN;

RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 18744396149     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-1812-y     Document Type: Article

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