A new rainfall model based on the Neyman-Scott process using cubic copulas

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Evin, G ^a,b   Favre, A C ^a,b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE; RAINFALL STORMS;

RAIN;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON RATIO; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINSTORM;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; CENTRAL AMERICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 43049093718     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006054     Document Type: Article

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