Application of the multivariate spectral weather generator to the contiguous United States

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 517-521

  Schoof, J T ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spectral methods; Stochastic modeling; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SKEWNESS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39749127217     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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