Quantile regression for investigating scaling of extreme precipitation with temperature

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3608-3614

  Wasko, Conrad ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; extreme precipitation; quantile regression

Indexed keywords

BINS; CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GROWING BODIES; PRECIPITATION DATA; QUANTILE REGRESSION; RAINFALL DATA; SCALING COEFFICIENTS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84899034324     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015194     Document Type: Article

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