Daily rainfall projections from general circulation models with a downscaling nonhomogeneous hidden Markov model (NHMM) for south-eastern Australia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 3663-3673

  Fu, Guobin ^a   Charles, Stephen P ^a   Kirshner, Sergey ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Murray Darling basin; Nonhomogeneous hidden Markov model (NHMM); South eastern Australia; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IPCC EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; NONHOMOGENEOUS HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (NHMM); SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MARKOV CHAIN; RAINFALL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84883580877     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9483     Document Type: Article

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