Revision of urban drainage design rules after assessment of climate change impacts on precipitation extremes at Uccle, Belgium

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 496, Issue , 2013, Pages 166-177

  Willems, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate change; Design storms; Rainfall extremes; Statistical downscaling; Storage capacity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; DESIGN STORMS; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITYDURATION-FREQUENCY (IDF); MEAN RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RAINFALL EXTREMES; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STORAGE CAPACITY;

FLOODS; RAIN; STORAGE (MATERIALS); STORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RETURN PERIOD; STORM; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN DRAINAGE; WATER STORAGE;

BELGIUM; BRUSSELS [BELGIUM]; UCCLE;

EID: 84879442373     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.05.037     Document Type: Article

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