Evaluating changes and estimating seasonal precipitation for the Colorado River Basin using a stochastic nonparametric disaggregation technique

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Kalra, Ajay ^a   Ahmad, Sajjad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; CHANGING CLIMATE; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; DISAGGREGATION; DISAGGREGATION TECHNIQUES; FIRST-ORDER; HIGH VARIABILITY; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; MANN-KENDALL; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RANK SUM TESTS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SNOW TELEMETRY; SPEARMAN'S RHO; SPRING SEASON; STEP CHANGES; SUMMER SEASON; WATER MANAGERS; WATER YEAR; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION; RIVERS; STATISTICAL TESTS; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW; STOCHASTICITY; TELEMETRY; WATER RESOURCE;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 79958036983     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009118     Document Type: Article

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