High-frequency and low-frequency variability in stochastic daily weather generator and its effect on agricultural and hydrologic modelling

Climatic Change

Volumn 63, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 145-179

  Dubrovský, Martin ^a   Buchtele, Josef ^b   Žalud, Zdeněk ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDRODYNAMICS   (Czech Republic)

^c MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; HYDROLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; WEATHER DEPENDENT PROCESSES;

STREAM FLOW;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 1842665173     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000018504.99914.60     Document Type: Article

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