Intensity-duration-frequency curves from scaling representations of rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Langousis, Andreas ^a   Veneziano, Daniele ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FRACTALS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY (IDF); RAINFALL MODELS;

RAIN;

EXTRAPOLATION; FRACTALS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN;

GRAPHICAL METHOD; MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; FLORENCE [FIRENZE]; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EID: 33947667924     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005245     Document Type: Article

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