Trends in precipitation extremes over the Yangtze River basin

Shuikexue Jinzhan/Advances in Water Science

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 650-655

  Jiang, Tong ^a,b   Su, Bu Da ^a   Marco, Gemmer ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Change trend; ECHAM5 model; Extreme precipitation; Probability distribution; Yangtze River basin

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY; RAIN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

21ST CENTURIES; ANNUAL MAXIMUMS; CHANGE TREND; ECHAM5 MODEL; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GASES EMISSIONS; GENERAL EXTREME VALUES; HEAVY PRECIPITATIONS; PRECIPITATION DATUMS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS; RETURN PERIODS; SIMULATED DATUMS; TIME SERIES; YANGTZE RIVER BASIN; YANGTZE RIVERS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 55949108730     PISSN: 10016791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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