Scale dependence of spatiotemporal intermittence of rain

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kundu, Prasun K ^a   Siddani, Ravi K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXED DISTRIBUTION; MULTI-YEAR DATA; NON-ZERO PROBABILITY; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN RATES; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SPACE AND TIME; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; TIME-AVERAGED;

GAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

RAIN;

DATA SET; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

EID: 80052049038     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010070     Document Type: Article

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