Short Duration Rainfall Extremes in Ireland: Influence of Climatic Variability

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 987-1003

  Leahy, Paul G ^a   Kiely, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Climate; Depth duration frequency; Nonstationarity; North Atlantic oscillation; Precipitation extremes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FLOODS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORMS; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE; DEPTH-DURATION; NON-STATIONARITIES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES;

RAIN;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

IRELAND;

EID: 79953892228     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9737-2     Document Type: Article

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