Rainfall stochastic disaggregation models: Calibration and validation of a multiplicative cascade model

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1301-1319

  Gaume, E ^a   Mouhous, N ^b   Andrieu, H ^c  

^a Universite Paris Est   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^c Laboratoire Centrale de Ponts et Chausées   (France)

Author keywords

Disaggregation; Model; Multifractal; Rainfall; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EXPONENT FUNCTION; LOG-POISSON RANDOM GENERATOR; RANDOM MULTIPLICATIVE CASCADE;

RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; POISSON RATIO; RAINFALL; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES;

EID: 33847328396     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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