Deriving short-duration rainfall IDF curves from a regional climate model

Natural Hazards

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1877-1891

  Vu, M T ^a,c   Raghavan, V S ^a,c   Liong, S Y ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

^c SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flooding; IDF; RCM; Simple scaling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

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EID: 84994452887     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2670-9     Document Type: Article

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