Finding the most appropriate precipitation probability distribution for stochastic weather generation and hydrological modelling in Nordic watersheds

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 3718-3729

  Li, Zhi ^a   Brissette, Francois ^b   Chen, Jie ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hydrological modelling; Nordic watersheds; Precipitation probability distributions; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; TIME SERIES; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; WEATHER GENERATOR;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DISCHARGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERSHED;

CANADA; CHUTE DU DIABLE BASIN; QUEBEC [CANADA]; YAMASKA BASIN;

EID: 84898538666     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9499     Document Type: Article

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