Regional rainfall depth-duration-frequency equations for an alpine region

Natural Hazards

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 221-235

  Borga, Marco ^a   Vezzani, Claudia ^a   Dall Fontana, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extreme rainfalls; Gumbel distribution; Rainfall process; Scaling processes; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

EID: 22844449242     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-4550-y     Document Type: Article

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