The climatic characteristics of extreme precipitations for short-term intervals in the watershed of Lake Maggiore

L-Moments: Analysis and Estimation of Distributions Using Linear Combinations of Order Statistics

J. R. M. Hosking · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1990 · 3.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +13

Observed Variability and Trends in Extreme Climate Events: A Brief Review^*

David R. Easterling, Jenni L. Evans, Pavel Groisman et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2000 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Climate Science +16

Probability weighted moments: Definition and relation to parameters of several distributions expressable in inverse form

J. Arthur Greenwood, Jurate M. Landwehr, N. C. Matalas et al. · Water Resources Research · 1979 · 1.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +8

Some statistics useful in regional frequency analysis

J. R. M. Hosking, James R. Wallis · Water Resources Research · 1993 · 924 citations

Business, Biostatistics, Regional Studies +8

A precipitation climatology of the Alps from high-resolution rain-gauge observations

Christoph Frei, Christoph Schär · International Journal of Climatology · 1998 · 913 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Meteorology +17