Daily minimum and maximum temperature simulation over complex terrain

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 588-612

  Kleiber, William ^a   Katz, Richard W ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Gaussian process; Maximum temperature; Minimum temperature; Multivariate covariance; Nonstationary; Simulation; Stochastic weather generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876059206     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS602     Document Type: Article

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