A comparison of four precipitation distribution models used in daily stochastic models

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 809-820

  Liu, Yonghe ^a,e,f   Zhang, Wanchang ^b   Shao, Yuehong ^c   Zhang, Kexin ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Linyi Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^e HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Fourier series; gamma distribution; Markov chain; mixed exponential distribution; weather generators

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959389816     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-9180-6     Document Type: Article

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