Time scale and intensity dependency in multiplicative cascades for temporal rainfall disaggregation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Rupp, David E ^a,b   Keim, Richard F ^c   Ossiander, Mina ^d   Brugnach, Marcela ^e   Selker, John S ^d  

^a DHI Water and Environment Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY RAINFALL; LONG TIME SERIES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLICATIVE CASCADES; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RAINFALL DISAGGREGATION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RANDOM CASCADES; TIME-SCALES; VARYING MODELS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

MODEL TEST; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 69249091742     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007321     Document Type: Article

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