Marginal methods of intensity-duration-frequency estimation in scaling and nonscaling rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Veneziano, Daniele ^a   Lepore, Chiara ^b   Langousis, Andreas ^a   Furcolo, Pierluigi ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

RAINFALL INTENSITY; SEPARABILITY CONDITION;

RAIN;

DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DATA; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL;

EID: 36749057345     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006040     Document Type: Article

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