Modeling annual extreme precipitation in China using the generalized extreme value distribution

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 599-613

  Feng, Song ^a   Nadarajah, Saralees ^a,b   Hu, Qi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 38049031712     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85.599     Document Type: Article

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