Equidistance Quantile Matching Method for Updating IDFCurves under Climate Change

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2539-2562

  Srivastav, Roshan K ^a   Schardong, Andre ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Gumbel distribution; Intensity duration frequency; Quantile matching; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY DURATION FREQUENCIES; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; QUANTILE-MATCHING; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL ECONOMY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

ALBERTA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CALGARY; CANADA; HAMILTON [ONTARIO]; LONDON [ONTARIO]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; VANCOUVER [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

EID: 84902331513     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0626-y     Document Type: Article

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