A nonparametric wet/dry spell model for resampling daily precipitation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2803-2823

  Lall, Upmanu ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^b   Tarboton, David G ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; JOINT; MODEL; PRECIPITATION; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL MODEL; WET/DRY SPELL MODEL;

USA, UTAH;

EID: 0029659664     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00565     Document Type: Article

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