Maximum daily rainfall in South Korea

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 311-320

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Choi, Dongseok ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual maximum daily rainfall; Data analysis; Extreme value theory; Generalized extreme value distribution; Gumbel distribution; Hydrology; Modeling; Return levels; Trend

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 36348929982     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: 02534126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-007-0028-0     Document Type: Article

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