A daily stochastic weather generator for preserving low-frequency of climate variability

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 388, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 480-490

  Chen, Jie ^a   Brissette, François P ^a   Leconte, Robert ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Low frequency variability; Power spectra; Precipitation; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL TIME SERIES; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPUTER MODELS; FIRST-ORDER; FLOW DISCHARGES; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; IMPACT STUDY; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; OBSERVED DATA; POWER-SPECTRA; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION MODEL; RIVER BASINS; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR; TWO-STATE MARKOV CHAINS; VALIDATION TEST; WEATHER GENERATOR;

AUTOCORRELATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; METEOROLOGY; POWER SPECTRUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RICHARDS EQUATION; RIVER BASIN; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953628719     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.032     Document Type: Article

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