Nonstationarity in seasonality of extreme precipitation: A nonparametric circular statistical approach and its application

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4499-4515

  Dhakal, Nirajan ^a,b,c   Jain, Shaleen ^a,b   Gray, Alexander ^a,d   Dandy, Michael ^b   Stancioff, Esperanza ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b The University of Maine   (United States)

^c Northeast Climate Science Center ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

circular statistics; hydrologic change; hydrologic extremes; nonstationarity; rainfall; seasonality

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; STORMS;

CIRCULAR STATISTICS; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; NON-STATIONARITIES; SEASONALITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WEATHER STATION;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937513726     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016399     Document Type: Article

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