Intermittency, autoregression and censoring: A first-order AR model for daily precipitation

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 384-397

  Hannachi, A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autoregression; Censored and truncated processes; Daily precipitation; Intermittency

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; AUTOREGRESSION; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; FIRST ORDER AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; INTERMITTENCY; QUANTILE-QUANTILE PLOT; SCALING PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC MODELS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

EID: 84898800670     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1353     Document Type: Article

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