RainFARM: Rainfall downscaling by a Filtered Autoregressive Model

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 724-738

  Rebora, Nicola ^a   Ferraris, Luca ^a   von Hardenberg, Jost ^a,b   Provenzale, Antonello ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNSCALING; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33748926103     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM517.1     Document Type: Article

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