Assessment of a single-site daily rainfall generator in the Middle East

2nd International Conference on Environmental and Computer Science, ICECS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 14-18

  Mhanna, Muamaraldin ^a   Bauwens, Willy ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Daily rainfall model; Markov chain; Missing data; Precipitation; Stochastic process

Indexed keywords

DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL MODEL; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FIRST-ORDER; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MARKOV CHAIN; MARKOV MODEL; MIDDLE EAST; MISSING DATA; PARAMETER GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; SEMIARID AREA; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; TWO-STATE MARKOV CHAINS;

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 77949843045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2009.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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