Estimation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Frequency in the United States

Tropical cyclones pose a significant flood risk to vast land regions in their path because of extreme precipitation. Thus it is imperative to quantitatively assess this risk. This study compares exceedance frequencies of tropical cyclone precipitation derived from two independent observational datas...

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Main Authors: Feldmann, Monika, Emanuel, Kerry, Zhu, Laiyin, Lohmann, Ulrike
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124924