A bivariate mixed distribution with a heavy-tailed component and its application to single-site daily rainfall simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 767-789

  Li, Chao ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^a,b   Mishra, Ashok K ^a,c  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV CHAINS; RAIN GAGES;

DEPENDENCE STRUCTURES; ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; TRANSITION PROBABILITY MATRIX; TWO-STATE MARKOV CHAINS;

RAIN;

AUTOCORRELATION; EXTREME EVENT; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84876526060     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20063     Document Type: Article

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