Identifying individual rain events from pluviograph records: A review with analysis of data from an Australian dryland site

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 5024-5036

  Dunkerley, David ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fowlers Gap; Intensity; Inter event time; Rain event; Storm event

Indexed keywords

FOWLERS GAP; INTENSITY; INTER-EVENT TIME; RAIN EVENT; STORM EVENT;

STORMS;

RAIN;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 67650337291     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7122     Document Type: Review

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