Evaluation of various root transformations of daily precipitation amounts fitted with a normal distribution for Australia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 229-238

  Fu, Guobin ^a   Viney, Neil R ^a   Charles, Stephen P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; GEOSTATISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TESTING METHOD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70849132629     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0137-6     Document Type: Article

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