Simulating daily rainfall fields over large areas for collective risk estimation

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 512, Issue , 2014, Pages 285-302

  Serinaldi, Francesco ^a,b   Kilsby, Chris G ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian random fields; Generalized additive models; Generalized linear models; Large scale risk assessment; Rainfall modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELDS; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS; RAINFALL MODELS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL AGGREGATION; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84896521068     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.02.043     Document Type: Article

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