Extreme storms in Malmö, Sweden

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 3462-3475

  Bengtsson, Lars ^a   Milloti, Stefan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VA SYD   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Quality control; Trends; Urban storms

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENTS; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN-INTENSITY; RECURRENCE TIME; RETURN PERIODS; SINGLE EVENT; STORM INTENSITY; TREND ANALYSIS; TRENDS; URBAN STORMS;

GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RAIN; STORMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAINGAUGE; STORM; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

MALMO; SKANE; SWEDEN;

EID: 78149476697     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7768     Document Type: Article

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