A weather-type conditioned multi-site stochastic rainfall model for the generation of scenarios of climatic variability and change

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 308, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 50-66

  Fowler, H J ^a   Kilsby, C G ^a   O'Connell, P E ^a   Burton, A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Climatic changes; Simulated rainfall; Stochastic models; Water resources; Weather

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RANDOM PROCESSES; WATER RESOURCES;

AIRFLOW; RAINFALL MODEL; STATISTICAL VARIANCE; WEATHER CONDITION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELING; RAINFALL; WATER RESOURCE; WEATHER;

EID: 20344374770     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.10.021     Document Type: Article

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