Estimates and uncertainties of return periods of extreme daily precipitation in Germany

For 1769 meteorological stations in Germany records of daily precipitation amounts with not more than one missing day are available for the period 1951 to 2000. We fit Gumbel distributions to annual maximum daily, two-day and three-day precipitation amounts. We show that the Gumbel distribution fits...

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Main Authors: Jürgen Grieser, Tim Staeger, Christian-D. Schönwiese
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2007-10-01
Series:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0235

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