Improved K-nearest neighbor weather generating model

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-51

  Sharif, Mohammed ^a   Burn, Donald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; River basins; Stochastic processes; Weather

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR; NEIGHBOR RESAMPLING; WEATHER GENERATING MODEL;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION; WEATHER MODIFICATION; WEATHER STATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO];

EID: 33845636934     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2007)12:1(42)     Document Type: Article

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