Clustering of maxima: Spatial dependencies among heavy rainfall in france

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7929-7937

  Bernard, Elsa ^a   Naveau, Philippe ^a   Vrac, Mathieu ^a   Mestre, Olivier ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Direction de la Climatologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL DATASETS; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; MULTIVARIATE EXTREMES; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL DEPENDENCIES; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; STATISTICAL CLIMATOLOGIES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GEOSTATISTICS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FRANCE;

EID: 84885336858     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00836.1     Document Type: Article

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