Mapping extreme snowfalls in the French Alps using max-stable processes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1079-1098

  Gaume, J ^a   Eckert, N ^a   Chambon, G ^a   Naaim, M ^a   Bel, L ^b  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RISK MANAGEMENT; SNOW;

DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; INFORMATION CRITERION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODEL SELECTION PROCEDURES; OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENTS; SPACE TRANSFORMATIONS;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

ELEVATION; EXTREME EVENT; MAGNITUDE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WEATHER STATION;

ALPS; FRANCE;

EID: 84876590315     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20083     Document Type: Article

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