A simple stochastic weather generator for ecological modeling

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1252-1255

  Birt, A G ^a   Valdez Vivas, M R ^b   Feldman, R M ^b   Lafon, C W ^a   Cairns, D ^a   Coulson, R N ^a   Tchakerian, M ^a   Xi, W ^a   Guldin, J M ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Ecology; Stochastic model; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SIMPLE STOCHASTIC; SOURCE CODES; STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR; WEATHER GENERATOR;

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77957752578     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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