Seasonal semi-variance of Dutch rainfall at hourly to daily scales

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-85

  van de Beek, C Z ^a,b   Leijnse, H ^c   Torfs, P J J F ^b   Uijlenhoet, R ^b  

^a MeteoGroup   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Precipitation; Rain; Raingauge; Semi variogram; Variance

Indexed keywords

COSINE FUNCTIONS; NETHERLANDS; POWER LAW RELATION; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN RATES; SCALING RELATIONS; SEASONALITY; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SPACE-TIME VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL SCALING; VARIANCE; VARIOGRAMS;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER LAW; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84864338231     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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