Spatiotemporal stochastic simulation of monthly rainfall patterns in the United Kingdom (1980-87)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4194-4210

  Ekström, Marie ^a,d   Kyriakidis, Phaedon C ^b   Chappell, Adrian ^c   Jones, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BAROMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; RAIN; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN GAUGES; STOCHASTIC GAUSSIAN SIMULATION; TIME AND SPACE DOMAIN;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548485796     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4233.1     Document Type: Article

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