Extreme rainstorms: Comparing regional envelope curves to stochastically generated events

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Viglione, A ^a   Castellarin, A ^b   Rogger, M ^a   Merz, R ^c   Bloschl G ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; AUSTRIA; DATA ERRORS; DEPTH-DURATION; ENVELOPE CURVE; EXTREME RAINFALL; LOCAL METHODS; PROBABILISTIC INTERPRETATION; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL SERIES; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; REGIONAL ENVELOPE CURVES; UPPER BOUND;

GAGES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; THUNDERSTORMS; TIME SERIES;

RAIN;

EXTREME EVENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RAINSTORM; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84856018549     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010515     Document Type: Article

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