Further developments of a transient Poisson-cluster model for rainfall

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 831-847

  Evin, Guillaume ^a   Favre, Anne Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b GIPSA   (France)

Author keywords

Generalized method of moments; Neyman Scott rectangular pulses model; Non homogeneous Poisson process; Nonstationarity; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RAIN; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STORMS;

GENERALIZED METHOD OF MOMENTS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; NON HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; NON-STATIONARITIES; RECTANGULAR PULSE; STOCHASTIC POINT PROCESS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POISSON RATIO; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876097163     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-012-0612-y     Document Type: Article

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