Assessment of extreme wind speeds from regional climate models - Part 1: Estimation of return values and their evaluation

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 907-922

  Kunz, M ^a   Mohr, S ^a   Rauthe, M ^a,b   Lux, R ^a,c   Kottmeier, Ch ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c Institut für Kunststoffe   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; GUST; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DATA; STORM; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77951674712     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-907-2010     Document Type: Article

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