A multisite stochastic downscaling model of daily rainfall occurrences with long term persistence

MODSIM07 - Land, Water and Environmental Management: Integrated Systems for Sustainability, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1485-1491

  Mehrotra, R ^a   Sharma, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Low frequency variability; Rainfall; Spatial and temporal rainfall structure; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; RAIN; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; MODELING FOR SIMULATIONS; TEMPORAL PERSISTENCE; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; WATER BALANCE SIMULATION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 80052935528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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