Non-stationarity in daily and sub-daily intense rainfall - Part 2: Regional assessment for sites in south-east Australia

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2273-2284

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

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOODING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80052004035     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2273-2011     Document Type: Article

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