Multisite rainfall downscaling and disaggregation in a tropical urban area

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 509, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-65

  Lu, Y ^a   Qin, X S ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Disaggregation; Downscaling; GLM; HYETOS; KNN; MuDRain

Indexed keywords

DISAGGREGATION; DOWN-SCALING; GLM; HYETOS; KNN; MUDRAIN;

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

RAIN;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN AREA;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84890092676     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.11.027     Document Type: Article

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