A spatial and nonstationary model for the frequency of extreme rainfall events

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-136

  Gregersen, Ida Bülow ^a   Madsen, Henrik ^b   Rosbjerg, Dan ^a   Arnbjerg Nielsen, Karsten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DHI   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GENERALIZED ESTIMATION EQUATIONS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION;

LASERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; MODEL TEST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

DENMARK;

EID: 84876525806     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012570     Document Type: Article

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