ON A SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION OF MAXIMUM VALUES1
- 1 February 1960
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Monthly Weather Review
- Vol. 88 (2) , 66-69
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1960)088<0066:oasdom>2.0.co;2
Abstract
The classical extreme-value theory does not give a good account of the distribution of maximum rainfall intensities in Belgium. Reasons are given for the use, in this case, of a probability function defined by a double exponential whose argument is a function represented by a curve with two asymptotes. The application of such a probability function, when the curve is a branch of a hyperbola, to the maximum rainfall, in 1 min., at Uccle, leads to a good fit.Keywords
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