Time-varying extreme rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves in a changing climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2454-2463

  Sarhadi, Ali ^a,b   Soulis, Eric D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; dynamic GEV distribution; extreme events; infrastructure design; nonstationary IDF curves; trend analysis

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EXTREME EVENTS; GEV DISTRIBUTIONS; IDF CURVES; INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN; TREND ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INFRASTRUCTURE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 85014738297     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072201     Document Type: Article

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