Changes in extreme rainfall in the Philippines (1911-2010) linked to global mean temperature and ENSO

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2033-2044

  Villafuerte, Marcelino Q ^a,b   Matsumoto, Jun ^a,c   Kubota, Hisayuki ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Philippine Atmospheric   (Philippines)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme rainfall; Generalized extreme value distribution; Global warming; Philippines; Return level; Return period

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BALLOONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; WIND EFFECTS;

EXTREME RAINFALL; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; PHILIPPINES; RETURN LEVEL; RETURN PERIODS;

RAIN;

EID: 84961334075     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4105     Document Type: Article

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