On the use of Cox regression to examine the temporal clustering of flooding and heavy precipitation across the central United States

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 155, Issue , 2017, Pages 98-108

  Mallakpour, Iman ^a,c   Villarini, Gabriele ^a   Jones, Michael P ^a   Smith, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; NORTH AMERICAN; POISSON PROCESS; PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; REGRESSION MODEL; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING;

FLOODS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; FLOODING; POISSON RATIO; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85021960298     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.07.001     Document Type: Article

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