Quantification of the climate change-induced variations in Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves in the Canadian Prairies

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 527, Issue , 2015, Pages 990-1005

  Shahabul Alam, Md ^a   Elshorbagy, Amin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution; Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) curves; K nearest neighbors (K NN); Saskatoon; Stochastic weather generators

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MOTION COMPENSATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE (GEV) DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; SASKATOON; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENGINEERING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRAIRIE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STORMWATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN; SASKATOON;

EID: 84931292091     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.05.059     Document Type: Article

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