Homogeneity of gridded precipitation datasets for the Colorado River Basin

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2404-2415

  Guentchev, Galina ^a   Barsugli, Joseph J ^b   Eischeid, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Numerical analysis modeling; Pacific decadal oscillation; Precipitation; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; BREAK-POINTS; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; DATA SETS; GRID CELLS; GRIDDING; INHOMOGENEITIES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION; RAPID SHIFTS; SPATIAL SCALE; STATION DATA; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; VARIABILITY ANALYSIS;

METEOROLOGY; TIME SERIES; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 78651088582     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2484.1     Document Type: Article

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