Regionalization of heavy rainfall to improve climatic design values for infrastructure: Case study in Southern Ontario, Canada;Régionalisation des fortes pluies afin d'améliorer l'estimation des pluies de projet pour la conception d'infrastructures: Étude de cas dans le centre-sud de l'Ontario (Canada)

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1067-1089

  Paixao, Edson ^a   Auld, Heather ^a   Mirza, M Monirul Qader ^a   Klaassen, Joan ^a   Shephard, Mark W ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flooding; Heavy rainfall events; Infrastructure design; Intensity duration frequency; Regional frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; ANNUAL MAXIMUM SERIES; BEST FIT; CLIMATIC DESIGN; DESIGN VALUE; EXTREME RAINFALL; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; HEAVY RAINFALL; HEAVY RAINFALL EVENTS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; IDF CURVES; INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY; LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; POINT-BASED; RAINFALL DATA; RAINGAUGES; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SCALING FACTORS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STUDY AREAS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIPPING-BUCKET RAINGAUGE; WARD'S METHOD;

CLIMATOLOGY; DESIGN; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

RAIN;

FLOODING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INFRASTRUCTURE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 80054790464     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2011.608069     Document Type: Review

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