Non-stationarity in annual and seasonal series of peak flow and precipitation in the UK

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1125-1144

  Prosdocimi, I ^a   Kjeldsen, T R ^b   Svensson, C ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RIVER FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84982291604     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-1125-2014     Document Type: Article

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