Generating synthetic high resolution rainfall time series at sites with only daily rainfall using a master-target scaling approach

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 393, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 163-173

  Jennings, Shane Anthony ^a   Lambert, Martin F ^a   Kuczera, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Point rainfall; Rainfall; Rainfall simulation; Stochastic hydrology

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS; DIRECT CALIBRATION; EXTENSIVE TESTING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTORICAL DATA; MODEL CALIBRATION; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; PLUVIOGRAPH; POINT RAINFALLS; RAINFALL; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL MODELS; RAINFALL SIMULATIONS; RAINFALL TIME SERIES; RECORDING STATIONS; RISK ESTIMATION; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SHORT TIME SCALE; STOCHASTIC HYDROLOGY; STORM EVENTS; TARGET SITES; TIME STEP;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; RISK PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES; WATER;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORM; TIME SERIES;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77957888282     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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