A space-time rainfall disaggregation model adapted to Sahelian mesoscale convective complexes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1711-1726

  Lebel, Thierry ^a,c   Braud, Isabelle ^b,c   Creutin, Jean Dominique ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; RAINFALL;

AFRICA; SAHEL;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STORMS;

COVARIANCE FUNCTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; RAINFALL DISAGGREGATION; TURNING BAND METHODS; TYPICAL SEQUENCES;

RAIN;

EID: 0031863836     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00434     Document Type: Article

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