Battle of extreme value distributions : A global survey on extreme daily rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 187-201

  Papalexiou, Simon Michael ^a   Koutsoyiannis, Demetris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; FITTING RESULTS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE (GEV) DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SPECIFIC VALUES;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

RAIN;

DATA INTERPRETATION; EXTREME EVENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RETURN PERIOD; SHAPE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 84874501165     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012557     Document Type: Review

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