A semiparametric multivariate and multisite weather generator

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Apipattanavis, Somkiat ^a,b   Podestá, Guillermo ^c   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a,d   Katz, Richard W ^e  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Office of Research and Development   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PSYCHROMETERS; WATERSHEDS;

K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR (K-NN) BOOTSTRAP RESAMPLER; LAG-DEPENDENCE STATISTICS; WEATHER GENERATOR;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

MARKOV PROCESSES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PSYCHROMETERS; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MARKOV CHAIN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SIMULATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARGENTINA; PAMPAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 37549031301     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005714     Document Type: Article

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