Modelling the dependence and internal structure of storm events for continuous rainfall simulation

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 464-465, Issue , 2012, Pages 249-261

  Gyasi Agyei, Yeboah ^a   Melching, Charles S ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous simulation; Copula; Rainfall; Seasonality; Storm event

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION LEVEL; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; BIVARIATE; BOUNDARY EFFECTS; CONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGY; CONTINUOUS SIMULATION; COPULA; DEPENDENCE MODEL; DEVELOPED MODEL; FIRST HARMONIC; FIRST-ORDER; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; ILLINOIS; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; LOG-NORMAL MODEL; POISSON MODEL; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL SIMULATIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONALITY; SIMULATED STORMS; STORM EVENTS; WET PERIOD;

FOURIER SERIES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; STORMS; TIME SERIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; STORM; TIME SERIES;

COOK COUNTY [ILLINOIS]; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866147588     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.07.014     Document Type: Article

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