A multisite daily rainfall generator driven by bivariate copula-based mixed distributions

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Serinaldi, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; BIVARIATE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-CORRELATION MATRIX; DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL AMOUNTS; JOINT PROBABILITY; MARKOV MODEL; MIXED DISTRIBUTION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-SITE; NON-GAUSSIAN; RANDOM SEQUENCE; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; TEMPORAL INTERMITTENCY; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 67650422532     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011258     Document Type: Article

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