A comparison of multi-site daily rainfall downscaling techniques under Australian conditions

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 408, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-18

  Frost, Andrew J ^a   Charles, Stephen P ^b   Timbal, Bertrand ^c   Chiew, Francis H S ^b   Mehrotra, R ^d   Nguyen, Kim C ^c   Chandler, Richard E ^e   McGregor, John L ^c   Fu, Guobin ^b   Kirono, Dewi G C ^c   Fernandez, Elodie ^c   Kent, David M ^c  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogue method; CCAM; Downscaling; GLM; Hidden Markov model; Modified Markov model; Scaling method

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE METHOD; CCAM; DOWN-SCALING; GLM; MARKOV MODEL; SCALING METHOD;

AVAILABILITY; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAGES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES;

RAIN;

ANALOG MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAINGAUGE; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TIMESCALE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80052791218     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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