How extreme is extreme? An assessment of daily rainfall distribution tails

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 851-862

  Papalexiou, S M ^a   Koutsoyiannis, D ^a   Makropoulos, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; EXTREME EVENTS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY-TAILED; LIGHT-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL; RAINFALL EXTREMES; WEIBULL;

RAIN;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DESIGN; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84874471346     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-851-2013     Document Type: Article

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