Towards a stochastic model of rainfall for radar hydrology: Testing the poisson homogeneity hypothesis

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 747-755

  Uijlenhoet, R ^a   Stricker, J N M ^a   Torfs, P J J F ^a   Creutin, J D ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

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RAINFALL;

EID: 0033402165     PISSN: 14641909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1909(99)00076-3     Document Type: Article

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