A k-nearest-neighbor simulator for daily precipitation and other weather variables

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3089-3101

  Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a   Lall, Upmanu ^b  

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

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032848078     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900028     Document Type: Article

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