Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2653-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2653-2015
Research article
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10 Dec 2015
Research article |  | 10 Dec 2015

Evaluation of a compound distribution based on weather pattern subsampling for extreme rainfall in Norway

J. Blanchet, J. Touati, D. Lawrence, F. Garavaglia, and E. Paquet

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Simulation methods for design flood analyses require estimates of extreme precipitation for simulating maximum discharges. This article evaluates the MEWP model for extreme precipitation, a compound model based on weather-pattern classification, seasonal splitting and exponential distributions, for its suitability for use in Norway. It shows the clear benefit obtained from seasonal and weather-pattern-based subsampling for extreme value estimation.
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