Extreme rainfall events in the Hawaiian Islands

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 502-516

  Chu, Pao Shin ^a   Zhao, Xin ^b   Ruan, Ying ^a   Grubbs, Melodie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b University of Hawai'i at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; BOOTSTRAP RE-SAMPLING TECHNIQUES; DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL AMOUNTS; ECONOMIC LOSS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME RAINFALL; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOW FREQUENCY; METHOD OF L-MOMENTS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RETURN PERIODS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD DAMAGE; MAPPING METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RETURN PERIOD;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUNA KEA; NORTH AMERICA; OAHU; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67549097287     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1829.1     Document Type: Article

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