Evaluation of the climate generator model CLIGEN for rainfall data simulation in Bautzen catchment area, Germany

Hydrology Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4-5, 2014, Pages 615-630

  Al Mukhtar, Mustafa ^a,b   Dunger, Volkmar ^a   Merkel, Broder ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Non parametric tests; Spearman coefficient; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903606616     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2013.073     Document Type: Article

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