Rainfall : : Extremes, Distribution and Properties / / edited by John Abbot, Andrew Hammond.

This book describes aspects of rainfall including the extremes, distribution and properties. The introductory chapter focusses on drought and flooding rains over Australia, placing extreme rainfall events from recent decades into a historical context using reconstructions from proxy data. The next t...

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