Optimal rainfall temporal patterns for urban drainage design in the context of climate change

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1170-1176

  Nguyen, V T V ^a   Desramaut, N ^a   Nguyen, T D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Design storms; Extreme rainfalls; Generalized extreme value distribution; Statistical downscaling methods

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DESIGN STORMS; EXTREME RAINFALL; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

DESIGN; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

RAIN; STORM WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; OPTIMIZATION; PEAK FLOW; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DRAINAGE; VOLUME;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; URBAN AREA; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

CITIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE, SANITARY; RAIN; TIME FACTORS;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 78049382324     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.295     Document Type: Article

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