Rainfall stochastic modeling for runoff forecasting

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1252-1261

  Russo, Fabio ^a   Lombardo, Federico ^a   Napolitano, Francesco ^a   Gorgucci, Eugenio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flood forecasting; Rainfall fields; Simulation model; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; RANDOM PROCESSES; RUNOFF;

HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; RAINFALL FIELDS;

HYDROLOGY;

BACKSCATTER; CATCHMENT; FLOOD FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; POISSON RATIO; RADAR; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33751422520     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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