Abstract: The start of the rains is defined to be the first day, or two-day rain spell, in which greater than a specified total amount of rain occurs. A method of calculating the probability distribution of the start of the rains ...

Abstract: A range of Markov chain models have been used in the past to describe rainfall occurrence. Gamma distributions are commonly used for modeling rainfall amounts. These are all examples of generalized linear models. This ...

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