A cascade approach to continuous rainfall data generation at point locations

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 451-459

  Sivakumar, Bellie ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data transformation; High resolution rainfall; Log Poisson distribution; Moment scaling function; Random cascade; Scale invariance; Sydney

Indexed keywords

HIGH-RESOLUTION RAINFALL; MOMENT SCALING FUNCTION; RANDOM CASCADE; SCALE-INVARIANCE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; HYDROLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WATER RESOURCES;

DATA TRANSFER;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POISSON RATIO; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EID: 42549145439     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-007-0145-y     Document Type: Article

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