Continuous rainfall simulation: 1. A regionalized subdaily disaggregation approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Westra, Seth ^a   Mehrotra, Rajeshwar ^b   Sharma, Ashish ^b   Srikanthan, Ratnasingham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; AUSTRALIA; COVARIATES; DAILY RAINFALL; DAILY RAINFALL AMOUNTS; DISAGGREGATION; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NON-PARAMETRIC; POINT LOCATION; RAINFALL SEQUENCES; RAINFALL SIMULATIONS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; STORM EVENTS;

LOGISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

RAIN;

ELEVATION; LATITUDE; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84863837582     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010489     Document Type: Article

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