A point based Eulerian definition of rain event based on statistical properties of inter drop time intervals: An application to Chilbolton data

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 933-941

  Ignaccolo, Massimiliano ^a   De Michele, Carlo ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drop like nature; Event definition; Quiescent and active phases; Rainfall dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PHASIS; DROP TIME; EULERIAN; POINT-BASED; QUIESCENT AND ACTIVE PHASES; RAIN EVENTS; RAINFALL DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

DROPS;

RAIN;

EULERIAN ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINDROP; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954953464     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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