Primary Recipient

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Amount

$530,000.00

Award Date

7/19/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Intellectual Merit A long tradition links the modeling and analysis of rainfall extremes to Gumbel's extreme-value (EV) theory (and more recently Pickan