A comparison study of extreme precipitation from six different regional climate models via spatial hierarchical modeling

Extremes

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-239

  Schliep, Erin M ^a   Cooley, Daniel ^a   Sain, Stephan R ^b   Hoeting, Jennifer A ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Generalized extreme value distribution; Intrinsic autoregressive model; NARCCAP; Reanalysis driven simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951977046     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-009-0098-2     Document Type: Article

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