Two simple metrics for quantifying rainfall intermittency: The burstiness and memory of interamount times

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 421-436

  Schleiss, Marc ^a   Smith, James A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957865199     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0078.1     Document Type: Article

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