Threshold analysis of rainstorm depth and duration statistics at Toronto, Canada

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 348, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 535-545

  Palynchuk, Barry ^a   Guo, Yiping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design storms; Generalized Pareto distribution; Inter event time definition; Joint probability; Storm event analysis; Threshold analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DESIGN STORMS; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION; INTER-EVENT TIME DEFINITION; JOINT PROBABILITY; STORM-EVENT ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD ANALYSIS;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH DETERMINATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RAINSTORM; THRESHOLD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 36849018953     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.10.023     Document Type: Article

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