The relationship between Lamb weather types and long-term changes in flood frequency, River Eden, UK

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1971-1989

  Pattison, Ian ^a   Lane, Stuart N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flood frequency; Flood magnitude; Historical floods; Trends; Weather types

Indexed keywords

18TH CENTURY; CLIMATIC DRIVERS; DATA SETS; EXTREME FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD RISKS; HISTORICAL FLOODS; HYDROLOGICAL YEARS; LONG-TERM CHANGES; NORTH ATLANTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM; RIVER EDEN; TIME-SCALES; TRENDS; WEATHER TYPES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; RESEARCH WORK; TREND ANALYSIS;

CUMBRIA; EDEN RIVER; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84867954514     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2415     Document Type: Article

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