Occurrence and quantity of precipitation can be modelled simultaneously

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1231-1239

  Dunn, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Generalized linear models; Poisson distribution; Precipitation models; Tweedie distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION; STATISTICAL MODELS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 3843090679     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1063     Document Type: Article

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