Stochastic convective rain-field simulation using a high-resolution synoptically conditioned weather generator (HiReS-WG)

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2124-2139

  Peleg, Nadav ^a   Morin, Efrat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

convective rainfall; Eastern Mediterranean; high resolution rain data; hydrological application; stochastic downscaling; weather generator

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DOWN-SCALING; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LOW-INTENSITY RAINFALL; SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION; WEATHER GENERATOR;

RAIN;

EID: 84895775294     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014836     Document Type: Article

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