Fitting a third-order Markov rainfall model to interpolated climate surfaces

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 213-231

  Jones, P G ^a   Thornton, P K ^b  

^a Ctro Internacional Agric Trop (C   (Colombia)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Climate surface; Interpolation; Markov model; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION; RAINFALL;

EID: 0033581823     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00067-2     Document Type: Article

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