Development and utility of Huff curves for disaggregating precipitation amounts

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 641-653

  Bonta, James V ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Design storm; Disaggregation; Huff curves; Precipitation; Stochastic simulation; Storm simulation; Storm synthesis

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RANDOM PROCESSES; STORMS; WATERSHEDS;

DESIGN STORM; DISAGGREGATING PRECIPITATION; HUFF CURVES; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION; STORM SIMULATION; STORM SYNTHESIS; WATERSHED MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 10244252739     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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