A -10-Year survey of extreme rainfall events in the central and eastern United States using gridded multisensor precipitation analyses

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3147-3162

  Stevenson, Stephanie N ^a   Schumacher, Russ S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

STORMS;

EXTREME RAINFALL; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MULTI-SENSOR PRECIPITATIONS; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL SYSTEMS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84906872107     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00345.1     Document Type: Article

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