Modelling runoff with statistically downscaled daily site, gridded and catchment rainfall series

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 492, Issue , 2013, Pages 254-265

  Fu, Guobin ^a   Charles, Stephen P ^a   Chiew, Francis H S ^a   Teng, Jin ^a   Zheng, Hongxing ^a   Frost, Andrew J ^b   Liu, Wenbin ^c,d   Kirshner, Sergey ^e  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Murray Darling Basin (MDB); SIMHYD model; Statistical downscaling; The nonhomogeneous hidden Markov model (NHMM)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DAILY RAINFALL SERIES; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; MURRAY-DARLING BASINS (MDB); NONHOMOGENEOUS HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (NHMM); RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; STATISTICS;

CATCHMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOWNSCALING; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SIMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878477225     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.041     Document Type: Article

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