Regional frequency analysis of heavy precipitation totals in the High Tatras region in Slovakia for flood risk estimation

Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-355

  Gaál, Ladislav ^a   Szolgay, Jan ^a   Lapin, M ^b  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Design values; Goodness of fit tests; Heavy 1 to 5 day precipitation totals; High Tatras; Homogeneity tests; Regional frequency analysis; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 54149103651     PISSN: 13352806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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