Probability distribution of precipitation extremes for weather index-based insurance in the Zhujiang River Basin, South China

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1023-1037

  Fischer, Thomas ^a,b   Su, Buda ^a   Luo, Yong ^a   Scholten, Thomas ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Probability forecasts models distribution; Statistics; Time series

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VULNERABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 84864776906     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-041.1     Document Type: Article

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