Generating synthetic rainfall on various timescales-daily, monthly and yearly

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-438

  Piantadosi, Julia ^a   Boland, John ^a   Howlett, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copulas; Correlation; Daily; Monthly; Yearly rainfall

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

COPULAS; DAILY; MONTHLY; OBSERVED PROBABILITIES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SYNTHETIC RAINFALLS; TIME SERIES METHOD; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; MODIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRALIA; PARAFIELD; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70349926181     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-008-9157-3     Document Type: Article

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