Modeling of daily precipitation at multiple locations using a mixture of distributions to characterize the extremes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Hundecha, Yeshewatesfa ^a,b   Pahlow, Markus ^a   Schumann, Andreas ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; CATCHMENT SCALE; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; DAILY RAINFALL; EASTERN GERMANY; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MIXTURE MODEL; MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SEASONAL CYCLE; STATISTICAL FEATURES; STOCHASTIC BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CORRELATION; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

CATCHMENTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RUNOFF; TIME SERIES;

RAIN;

EID: 77953985880     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007453     Document Type: Article

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