[1] The climate of the Murray‐Darling basin (MDB) has been simulated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. WRF was implemented using a 10 km horizontal grid and run for 24 years from 1985 through 2008. The model simulated climate was evaluated against gridded precipitation and temperature observations from the Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP) at daily, monthly, int...

Global estimates of precipitation can now be made using data from a combination of geosynchronous and low earth-orbit satellites. However, revisit patterns of polar-orbiting satellites and the need to sample mixed-clouds scenes from geosynchronous satellites leads to the coarsening of the temporal resolution to the monthly scale. There are prohibitive limitations to the applicability of monthly...

Rainfall is considered a highly valuable climatologic resource, particularly in arid regions. As one of the primaryinputs that drive watershed dynamics, rainfall has been shown to be crucial for accurate distributed hydrologicmodeling. Precipitation is known only at certain locations; interpolation procedures are needed to predict this variablein other regions. In this study, the ordinary cokri...

This paper deals with the research of monthly precipitation trends in climatic stations in Libya and Slovakia. The non-parametric Mann-Kendall statistic test was applied to detect trends and to assess the significance of the trends in the time series. The evaluation was done for the time period from November to October. Trend analysis of rainfall data series for 1970–2010 did not show any clear...

Firstly, the drought monitoring model based on the Cloud Parameters Method/Index (CPI) is briefly introduced in this paper. Meanwhile, the characteristics of the sensor, Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI), are analyzed from the aspect for drought monitoring. Secondly, we promote a suitable multi-spectral model to detect cloud pixels for the calculation of the three cloud par...

Analysis of inconsistencies in multi-year gridded quantitative precipitation estimate over complex terrain and its impact on hydrologic modeling" (2012). s u m m a r y It is common that bias trends of long term precipitation data change over time due to various factors such as gauge relocation and changes in data processing methods. Temporal consistency of this error characteristic of precipita...