Long-term temporal variation of extreme rainfall events in Australia: 1910-2006

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 950-965

  Fu, Guobin ^a,b   Viney, Neil R ^a   Charles, Stephen P ^a   Liu, Jianrong ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77958521756     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JHM1204.1     Document Type: Article

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