New asymptotic and preasymptotic results on rainfall maxima from multifractal theory

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Veneziano, Daniele ^a   Langousis, Andreas ^a   Lepore, Chiara ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; ANNUAL RAINFALL; CONCEPTUAL CHANGE; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EXTREME VALUE; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; GEV DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE DEVIATION THEORY; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTIFRACTAL THEORY; RAINFALL EXTREMES; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL MODELS; SCALE-INVARIANT; SCALING PROPERTIES; SHAPE PARAMETERS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 72149103249     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008257     Document Type: Article

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