Temporal downscaling and statistical analysis of rainfall across a topographic transect in northwest Mexico

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 910-927

  Mascaro, Giuseppe ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^a,b   Gochis, David J ^c   Watts, Christopher J ^d   Rodriguez, Julio C ^d  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STORMS;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MODULATION FUNCTIONS; MULTIFRACTAL THEORY; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84897991434     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0330.1     Document Type: Article

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