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SUBMITTER: Cheng L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4235283 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20141118
Extreme climatic events are growing more severe and frequent, calling into question how prepared our infrastructure is to deal with these changes. Current infrastructure design is primarily based on precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves with the so-called stationary assumption, meaning extremes will not vary significantly over time. However, climate change is expected to alter climatic extremes, a concept termed nonstationarity. Here we show that given nonstationarity, current ...[more]