A Web-based rainfall atlas for Southern Africa

Environmetrics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 269-283

  Zucchini, Walter ^a,b   Nenadić, Oleg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daily rainfall; Hydrology; Kriging; Markov chain; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ATLAS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MARKOV CHAIN; RAINFALL; REGIONAL PLANNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33645996010     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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