The Markovian arrival process: A statistical model for daily precipitation amounts

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 510, Issue , 2014, Pages 459-471

  Ramírez Cobo, Pepa ^a   Marzo, Xavier ^b   Olivares Nadal, Alba V ^b   Francoso, José Álvarez ^b   Carrizosa, Emilio ^b   Fernanda Pita, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Correlation; Daily precipitation data; Hidden Markov models; Markovian arrival process; Moment matching method

Indexed keywords

ANDALUSIA; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; MARKOVIAN ARRIVAL PROCESS; MOMENT MATCHING METHOD; STATISTICAL MODELING; TELETRAFFIC; TWO-STATE;

CORRELATION METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84892985362     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.12.033     Document Type: Article

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