Probabilistic multisite precipitation downscaling by an expanded Bernoulli-gamma density network

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1284-1300

  Cannon, Alex J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 65349098924     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM960.1     Document Type: Article

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