Changes in the probability of extreme daily precipitation observed from 1951 to 2002 in the Iberian Peninsula

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1512-1525

  Rodrigo, F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Daily rainfall; Extreme rainfall probabilities; Gamma distribution; Iberian peninsula; Stretched exponential distribution

Indexed keywords

DAILY RAINFALL; EXTREME RAINFALL; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; IBERIAN PENINSULA; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 77956493914     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1987     Document Type: Article

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