Climate change impacts on extreme floods II: Improving flood future peaks simulation using non-stationary frequency analysis

Natural Hazards

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 715-726

  Seidou, Ousmane ^a   Ramsay, Andrea ^a   Nistor, Ioan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Deterministic simulations; Flood peak; Non stationary distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 83855162148     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0047-7     Document Type: Article

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