Wavelet Auto-Regressive Method (WARM) for multi-site streamflow simulation of data with non-stationary spectra

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 410, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Nowak, Kenneth C ^a,b   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a,b   Zagona, Edith ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado River; Multi site disaggregation; Non stationary spectra; Spectral simulation; Stochastic simulation; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

COLORADO RIVER; MULTI-SITE; NONSTATIONARY; SPECTRAL SIMULATIONS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION; WAVELET;

RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DATA SET; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WAVELET;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 80054875827     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.08.051     Document Type: Article

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