Rainfall extremes: Toward reconciliation after the battle of distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 336-352

  Serinaldi, Francesco ^a,b   Kilsby, Chris G ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

extreme events; heavy tail behavior; peak over threshold analysis; precipitation; time series analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; HEAVY-TAILS; PEAK-OVER-THRESHOLD ANALYSIS; RAINFALL EXTREMES; SHORT TIME SERIES; THRESHOLD SELECTION;

PARETO PRINCIPLE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 84896690005     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014211     Document Type: Article

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