Estimates of changes in design rainfall values for Canada

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1590-1599

  Burn, Donald H ^a   Taleghani, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap resampling approach; Canada; Climate change; Intensity duration frequency curves; Mann Kendall test; Rainfall quantiles

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMUM RAINFALLS; BOOTSTRAP RESAMPLING; CANADA; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; MANN-KENDALL TEST; MANN-KENDALL TRENDS; RAINFALL DURATION; WATER INFRASTRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESIGN; WATER SUPPLY;

RAIN;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESIGN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SAMPLING; TESTING METHOD; TREND ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 84877681040     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9238     Document Type: Article

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