Trends in sub-hourly, sub-daily and daily extreme rainfall events in eastern Australia

Journal of Water and Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 667-675

  Laz, Orpita U ^a   Rahman, Ataur ^b   Yilmaz, Abdullah ^c   Haddad, Khaled ^b  

^a Sydney Colorectal   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mann Kendall test; Spearman Rho test; Stormwater system; Trends

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; RAIN; STORMS;

ANNUAL MAXIMUM RAINFALLS; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; MANN-KENDALL TEST; SPEARMAN RHOS; STORMWATER SYSTEMS; TRENDS; URBAN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT; URBAN STORMWATER SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84974711854     PISSN: 20402244     EISSN: 24089354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2014.035     Document Type: Article

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