Extreme value modelling of daily areal rainfall over Mediterranean catchments in a changing climate

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3934-3944

  Tramblay, Yves ^a   Neppel, Luc ^a   Carreau, Julie ^a   Sanchez Gomez, Emilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Areal rainfall; Climate change; Frequency analysis; Humidity flux; Non stationary

Indexed keywords

AREAL PRECIPITATION; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE PROJECTION; COVARIATES; EMISSION SCENARIO; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE; FALL OVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAVY RAINFALL; MEDITERRANEAN CATCHMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONSTATIONARY; PROJECTION PERIOD; REANALYSIS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; RUNOFF;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84870482563     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8417     Document Type: Article

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