Orographic signature on multiscale statistics of extreme rainfall: A storm-scale study

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Ebtehaj, Mohammad ^a   Foufoula Georgiou, Efi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; STORMS;

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; COMPLEX TERRAINS; DOWN-SCALING; FOURIER; GENERALIZED NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTIPLE SCALE; MULTISCALES; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PROBABILITY MODELS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL SIGNATURES; STATISTICAL STRUCTURES; STATISTICS OF EXTREMES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THEORETICAL BASIS; THRESHOLDING; TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAIN;

LANDFORMS;

DOPPLER RADAR; DOWNSCALING; ELEVATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TERRAIN; WAVELET;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 78649941724     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014093     Document Type: Article

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