Event-adjusted evaluation of weather and climate extremes

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 473-483

  Muller M ^a,b   Kaspar, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; EXTREME EVENT; GEOMETRY; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RETURN PERIOD; WEATHER;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 85006825765     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-473-2014     Document Type: Article

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