Browsing Civil and Environmental Engineering by Author "Yang, Zhe"

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Automatic feature selection and weighting for the formation of homogeneous groups for regional IDF estimation

Yang, Zhe; Burn, Donald H. (Elsevier, 2019-08)

The intensity-duration frequency (IDF) curve has been used as an effective tool to quantify the risk associated with the impact of extreme rainfall on civil infrastructure. However, recent changes in the rainfall climatology ...
Regional Frequency Analysis Estimates of Extreme Rainfall Events under Climate Change

Yang, Zhe (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-09)

Extreme rainfall events have a long history of causing large economic damages in urban areas and even loss of human life. Reliable estimates of extreme rainfall intensities for different rainfall durations are essential ...