Daily tornado frequency distributions in the United States

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Elsner, J B ^a   Jagger, T H ^a   Widen, H M ^a   Chavas, D R ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; power law; statistics; tornado

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE; EXPONENTIAL RULE; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HAZARD MODELS; POWER LAW; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; RETURN PERIODS; SCALING EXPONENT;

TORNADOES;

DIURNAL VARIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TORNADO;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896868395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/2/024018     Document Type: Article

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