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Battle of extreme value distributions: A global survey on extreme daily rainfall | Synapse

November 15, 2012Open Access

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Battle of extreme value distributions: A global survey on extreme daily rainfall

SPSimon Michael PapalexiouCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique DKDemetris KoutsoyiannisNational Technical University of Athens

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Key Points We analyze the annual maximum daily rainfall in 15137 sites all over the world We find that Frechet extreme value distribution prevails over the Gumbel one We construct a global map of the shape parameter of the distribution

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a027826c2bdcf1ab8023859 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2012wr012557

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