Nonstationary behavior of recent climate increases concerns among hydrologists about the
currently used design rainfall estimates. Therefore, it is necessary to perform an analysis to …

In a world of increasing exposure of populations to natural hazards, the map** of extreme
rainfall remains a key subject of study. Such maps are required for both flood risk …

Iran is a large country with diverse geophysical and climatic conditions which are influenced
by both large atmospheric circulation patterns and local effects. The density of rainfall station …

Drought is a natural hazard which has slow onset and assessment of its vulnerability is
important for water resources management and sustainable development particularly in the …

Daily rainfall data from 31 rain gauges in Austria with a record of at least 50 years are used
to perform annual maximum and peaks‐over‐threshold analyses to address question …

Drought is the most important threat to both environmental and socio-economic features of
the arid and semi-arid regions of the world as it is closely associated with agricultural …

Flood frequency analysis is essentially a problem of information scarcity in arid and semi-
arid regions. Practically in these regions, the length of records is usually too short to insure …

Bivariate frequency analysis of extreme rainfall and runoff is crucial for water resource
planning and management in a river basin. This study is aimed at accounting for …

This study presents a spatial clustering of precipitation in Iran based on gridded data from
the Precipitation Climatology Centre from 1951 to 2007. After standardizing the data, two …

This paper presents a methodology for regional frequency analysis and spatial pattern
features of the Annual Maximum Dry Spell Length (AMDSL) as an indicator of drought …