Climate change impact and uncertainty analysis of extreme rainfall events in the Apalachicola River basin, Florida

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 480, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-135

  Wang, Dingbao ^a   Hagen, Scott C ^a   Alizad, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apalachicola River basin; Climate change; NARCCAP; Rainfall IDF; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLORIDA; HIGH INTENSITY; IDF CURVES; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; NARCCAP; NORTH AMERICAN; NUTRIENT LOADING; RAINFALL INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RIVER BASINS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SKILL SCORE; TEMPORAL SHIFTS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FLOOD CONTROL; RAIN; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

APALACHICOLA BASIN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872655254     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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