Hourly disaggregation of daily rainfall in Texas using measured hourly precipitation at other locations

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 476-487

  Choi, Janghwan ^a,b   Socolofsky, Scott A ^b   Olivera, Francisco ^a  

^a Hazard Engineering Resources   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Precipitation; Rainfall intensity; Statistics; Stochastic models; Storms; Texas

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STORMS;

DISAGGREGATION; HYETOGRAPHS; RAINFALL INTENSITY;

RAIN;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STORMS;

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; STOCHASTICITY; STORM;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43949122875     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2008)13:6(476)     Document Type: Article

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