Random cascade driven rainfall disaggregation for urban hydrology: An evaluation of six models and a new generator

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 563-578

  Licznar, Paweł ^a   Łomotowski, Janusz ^a   Rupp, David E ^b  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta normal generator; Rainfall disaggregation; Random cascades

Indexed keywords

BETA-NORMAL GENERATOR; CANONICAL MODELS; CASCADE MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELLING; INTERMITTENCY; NORMAL HISTOGRAM; PLUVIOGRAPH; RAINFALL DISAGGREGATION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RANDOM CASCADE MODEL; RANDOM CASCADES; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR; TIME STEP; TIME-SCALES; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBAN HYDROLOGY;

GRAPHIC METHODS; HYDROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES; WATER;

RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE NETWORK; HISTOGRAM; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

POLAND; WROCLAW [POLAND];

EID: 79451470035     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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