Spatial and temporal characteristics of heavy hourly rainfall in the United states

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4564-4575

  Hitchens, Nathan M ^a,b   Brooks, Harold E ^a   Schumacher, Russ S ^c  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EXTREME EVENTS; HEAVY RAIN EVENT; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMPROVED TECHNIQUES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896966151     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00297.1     Document Type: Article

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