Annual and seasonal mapping of peak intensity, magnitude and duration of extreme precipitation events across a climatic gradient, northeast Spain

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1759-1779

  Beguería, Santiago ^a   Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^b   López Moreno, Juan I ^b   García Ruiz, José M ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Daily precipitation; Duration; Exponential distribution; Extreme precipitation; L moments; Magnitude; Mediterranean; Northeast Spain; Peak intensity; Precipitation events; Regression based interpolation

Indexed keywords

DAILY PRECIPITATION; DURATION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; L-MOMENTS; MAGNITUDE; MEDITERRANEAN; NORTHEAST SPAIN; PEAK INTENSITY; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; REGRESSION-BASED INTERPOLATION;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATIC REGION; EXTREME EVENT; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 66949155099     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1808     Document Type: Article

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