Relationships between statistics of rainfall extremes and mean annual precipitation: An application for design-storm estimation in northern central Italy

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 589-601

  Di Baldassarre, G ^a   Castellarin, A ^a   Brath, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STORM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33747670165     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-10-589-2006     Document Type: Review

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