Non-stationarity in daily and sub-daily intense rainfall - Part 1: Sydney, Australia

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2263-2271

  Jakob, D ^a,b   Karoly, D J ^b   Seed, A ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; THRESHOLD;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EID: 80051959486     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2263-2011     Document Type: Article

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