Physical aspects of the weather generator

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 212-213, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 393-411

  Hantel, Michael ^a   Acs, Ferenc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Atmospheric diagnostic model; Probability distribution of soil moisture; Scale interaction; Surface flux model; Upscaling downscaling; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC DIAGNOSTIC MODEL; SURFACE FLUX MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DOWNSCALING; HEAT FLUX; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; SCALE EFFECT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; UPSCALING;

EID: 0032438922     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(98)00219-4     Document Type: Article

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