How to construct future IDF curves, under changing climate, for sites with scarce rainfall records?

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3276-3287

  Liew, San Chuin ^a   Raghavan, Srivatsan V ^a   Liong, Shie Yui ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate Change; Emission scenarios; IDF curves; Rainfall data sparse region; Reanalysis data; Regional Climate Model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EMISSION SCENARIO; IDF CURVES; RAINFALL DATA; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EMISSION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STORMWATER;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84897916657     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9839     Document Type: Article

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