Stochastic space-time disaggregation of rainfall into dsd fields

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1954-1969

  Schleiss, Marc ^a   Berne, Alexis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drop size distribution; Hydrometeorology; Microscale processes variability; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT;

EID: 84874999761     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-013.1     Document Type: Article

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