Statistical downscaling of daily rainfall for southeastern Australia

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn 344, Issue , 2011, Pages 69-74

  Fu, Guobin ^a   Charles, Stephen P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Murray Darling Basin; Nonhomogeneous Hidden Markov Model (NHMM); Southeastern Australia; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; ANNUAL RAINFALL; CATCHMENT SOILS; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; DAILY RAINFALL; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; SUMMER RAINFALL; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SHORTAGES; WINTER RAINFALL;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; RUNOFF; SOILS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WATER SUPPLY;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 81755176719     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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