Influence of trend on short duration design storms

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 401-413

  Adamowski, Jan ^a   Adamowski, Kaz ^b   Bougadis, John ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Delcan Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Intensity duration frequency relationships; Short duration annual maximum rainfall; Trends

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; DESIGN STORMS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EXTREME RAINFALL; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; ONTARIO , CANADA; RAINFALL TRENDS; RETURN PERIODS; SHORT DURATIONS; SHORT-DURATION ANNUAL MAXIMUM RAINFALL;

DESIGN; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAIN; STORMS; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 77349102024     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9452-z     Document Type: Article

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