The impact of climate change on rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves in Alabama

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 25-33

  Mirhosseini, Golbahar ^a   Srivastava, Puneet ^a   Stefanova, Lydia ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; General Circulation Models (GCMs); Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) curve; Temporal downscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893768007     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0375-5     Document Type: Article

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