On the value of hourly precipitation extremes in regional climate model simulations

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 393, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 265-273

  Hanel, Martin ^a,b   Buishand, T Adri ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hourly precipitation extremes; Nonstationary index flood model; Radar rainfall; Regional climate model simulations

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; HIGH QUALITY; HOURLY PRECIPITATIONS; NETHERLANDS; NONSTATIONARY; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; RADAR DATA; RADAR RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SIMILAR ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADAR; RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR IMAGERY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 77957880941     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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