Improved Weather Generator Algorithm for Multisite Simulation of Precipitation and Temperature

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1305-1320

  King, Leanna M ^a,b   Mcleod, A Ian ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate; Simulation; Stochastic; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; PRECIPITATION DATA; SIMULATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STOCHASTIC; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; WEATHER GENERATOR;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ANALOG MODEL; HISTORICAL RECORD; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEATHER;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO];

EID: 84983160303     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12307     Document Type: Article

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