Comparison of region-of-influence methods for estimating high quantiles of precipitation in a dense dataset in the Czech Republic

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2203-2219

  Gaal L ^a,b   Kysely J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 77952635359     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-13-2203-2009     Document Type: Article

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