A stochastic model for high-resolution space-time precipitation simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8400-8417

  Paschalis, Athanasios ^a   Molnar, Peter ^a   Fatichi, Simone ^a   Burlando, Paolo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SIMULATION; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MULTIVARIATE STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; PRECIPITATION FORMATION; SIMULATION PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STORMS; WATER RESOURCES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CALIBRATION; FLOOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTICITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER RESOURCE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84896711543     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014437     Document Type: Article

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