Wakeby distribution for representing annual extreme and partial duration rainfall series

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 381-387

  Öztekin, Tekin ^a  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beta P; Beta ; Extreme precipitation; Wakeby distribution

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DEVIATION; BOOTSTRAP RESAMPLING; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; FIVE PARAMETERS; P-DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL SERIES; TAIL ESTIMATES; WAKEBY DISTRIBUTION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

BOOTSTRAPPING; EXTREME EVENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349156981     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.37     Document Type: Article

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