The rainfall reliability wizard - A new tool to rapidly analyse spatial rainfall reliability with examples

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-57

  Laughlin, Greg P ^a   Zuo, Heping ^a   Walcott, James ^a   Bugg, Adrian L ^a  

^a BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inter seasonal reliability; Intra seasonal reliability and Australian wheat belt; Rainfall reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DROUGHT; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RAINFALL RELIABILITY WIZARD;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAINFALL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY;

AUSTRALIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0037235116     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(02)00037-3     Document Type: Article

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