It never rains on Sunday: The prevalence and implications of untagged multi-day rainfall accumulations in the Australian high quality data set

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1171-1192

  Viney, Neil R ^a   Bates, Bryson C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accumulated rainfall; Australia; Climate change analysis; Data quality; Day of week; Rain gauges; Untagged accumulations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY;

DATA SETS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA QUALITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 3342892393     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1053     Document Type: Article

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