Sampling rainfall events: A novel approach to generate large correlated samples

Hydrology Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 351-361

  Sun, Siao ^a   Khu, Soon Thiam ^b   Djordjević, Slobodan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Dependence; Hydrosystem modeling; Rainfall events; Sampling

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPENDENCE; DRIVING FORCES; HYDRO-SYSTEM; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL SAMPLES; SAMPLING-BASED METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; SAMPLING;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECISION; RAINFALL; SAMPLING;

EID: 84879075254     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2012.113     Document Type: Article

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