Persistence is an important characteristic of many complex systems in nature, related to how
long the system remains at a certain state before changing to a different one. The study of …

A recurrent issue encountered in environmental, ecological or agricultural impact studies in
which climate is an important driving force is to provide fast and realistic simulations of …

Weather has a significant impact on crop growth and development. This paper presents an
overview of crop modeling and applications of crop models, and the significance of weather …

High variability in rainfall occurrence and amounts together with high evaporative demand
create severe constraints for crop growth and yields in dry sub-humid and semi-arid farming …

Urban water systems throughout the world are under recurring and increasing water
scarcity, given demand growth, aging infrastructure, variability and uncertainty imposed by …

Estimating precipitation over large spatial areas remains a challenging problem for
hydrologists. Sparse ground-based gauge networks do not provide a robust basis for …

Several parsimonious stochastic rainfall models are developed and compared for
application to domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH) assessment in West Africa. Worldwide …

Skillful seasonal climate predictions paired with a dynamic crop model can assist
agricultural management and help farmers minimize risk. For crop yield predictions, the skill …

The occurrence of wet and dry spells is a phenomenon most often used to identify the arid
and semi‐arid lands (ASAL) in Kenya. The use of first‐order Markov processes that are …

In this paper, we propose a new method for modelling precipitation in Sweden. We consider
a chain dependent stochastic model that consists of a component that models the probability …