Return periods of the August 2010 heavy precipitation in northern Bohemia (Czech Republic) in the present climate and under climate change

Journal of Water and Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 265-286

  Kyselý, Jan ^a,b   Gaál, Ladislav ^a,c   Picek, Jan ^b   Schindler, Martin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

^c SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

August 2010 flood; Central Europe; Climate change scenarios; Extreme value analysis; Heavy precipitation; Regional frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL EUROPE; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION; FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOODING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; RETURN PERIOD;

BOHEMIA; CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 84884227527     PISSN: 20402244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2013.051     Document Type: Article

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