A regional monthly precipitation simulation model based on an L-moment smoothed statistical regionalization approach

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 348, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 27-39

  González, Javier ^a   Valdés, Juan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Orographic precipitation; Precipitation geostatistic; Precipitation simulation; Regional frequency analysis; Smoothing regionalization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION GEOSTATISTIC; PRECIPITATION SIMULATION; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SMOOTHING REGIONALIZATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPLEX TERRAIN; GEOSTATISTICS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINGAUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONALIZATION; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; JUCAR BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 41649093317     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.059     Document Type: Article

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