Climate change and non-stationary flood risk for the upper Truckee River basin

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 159-175

  Condon, L E ^a,b   Gangopadhyay, S ^a   Pruitt, T ^a  

^a U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESIGN; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; TRUCKS; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; END-TO-END ANALYSIS; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; HISTORICAL PERIODS; TIME-VARYING RISKS; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS;

FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOW MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION;

TRUCKEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929297964     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-159-2015     Document Type: Article

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