Generation of daily amounts of precipitation from standard climatic data: A case study for Argentina

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 289, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 286-302

  Castellvi F ^a   Mormeneo, I ^b   Perez, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Markov chain; Precipitation; Single parameter distribution function; Weather generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXTRAPOLATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CIVIL PLANNING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1642401479     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.11.027     Document Type: Article

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