The within-day behaviour of 6 minute rainfall intensity in Australia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2561-2579

  Western, A W ^a   Anderson, B ^a,e   Siriwardena, L ^a   Chiew, F H S ^b   Seed, A ^c   Bloschl G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DAILY RAINFALL AMOUNTS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FITTING METHOD; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT STATISTICS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER VALUES; PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; RAINFALL GENERATION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINY DAYS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TOTAL RAINFALL; TWO PARAMETER;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERROR STATISTICS;

RAIN;

COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80052004760     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-2561-2011     Document Type: Article

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