Generating multiyear gridded daily rainfall over New Zealand

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1315-1323

  Tait, Andrew ^a   Turner, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MULTIYEAR GRIDDED DAILY RAINFALL; NEW ZEALAND; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION METHOD;

RAIN;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 27744445969     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2279.1     Document Type: Article

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