Estimation of the summer-fall PMP and PMF of a northern watershed under a changed climate

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3852-3862

  Beauchamp, Josée ^a   Leconte, Robert ^b   Trudel, Mélanie ^b   Brissette, François ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; Probable maximum flood; Probable maximum precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES;

FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PROBABLE MAXIMUM FLOODS; PROBABLE MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; WATERSHED;

CANADA;

EID: 84881068357     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20336     Document Type: Article

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