A gridded multisite weather generator and synchronization to observed weather data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Wilks, Daniel S ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN STRUCTURE; GRID POINTS; GRIDDING; HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; LOCALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; MULTI-SITE; MULTIVARIATE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; REFERENCE STATIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHM; WEATHER DATA; WEATHER GENERATOR; WEATHER OBSERVATIONS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; METEOROLOGY; SIMULATORS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERPOLATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 72149113836     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007902     Document Type: Article

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