Time-varying character of storm intensity frequency and duration curves

Australian Journal of Water Resources

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-26

  Yilmaz, A G ^a   Safaet, H ^a   Huang, F ^a   Perera, B J C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Annual maximum series; Climate change; Generalised extreme value; Intensity frequency duration curves

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMUM SERIES; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL AND RUNOFFS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DURATION CURVE; EXTREME VALUE; GENERALISED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY-FREQUENCY-DURATION CURVES; STORM INTENSITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STORMS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; STORM;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84897843793     PISSN: 13241583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7158/W12-017.2014.18.1     Document Type: Article

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