Does nonstationarity in rainfall require nonstationary intensity-duration-frequency curves?

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 6461-6483

  Ganguli, Poulomi ^a,b   Coulibaly, Paulin ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; NON-STATIONARY MODEL; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; URBAN DRAINAGE DESIGNS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; FLOODING; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RETURN PERIOD; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBANIZATION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 85038839798     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-6461-2017     Document Type: Article

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