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Key publications in the development of daily WG<br />

Site(s) Observation Source<br />

Brussels Wet and dry days tend to cluster Quetelet (1852)<br />

Kew, Aberdeen,<br />

Greenwich, Valencia<br />

Probability of a rain day is greater if the<br />

previous day was wet<br />

Rothamstead, UK; Wet and dry spell lengths have a geometric<br />

five Canadian cities distribution<br />

Tel Aviv<br />

Use of Markov chain to reproduce geometric<br />

distribution of wet and dry spell lengths<br />

Combined Markov occurrence model with<br />

exponential distribution for rainfall amounts<br />

USA<br />

Generation of max/min temperature, and<br />

solar radiation conditional on rain occurrence<br />

USA<br />

Multi-site generalization of daily stochastic<br />

precipitation model<br />

Newnham (1916);<br />

Besson (1924); Gold<br />

(1929); Cochran<br />

(1938)<br />

Williams (1952);<br />

Longley (1953)<br />

Gabriel and<br />

Neumann (1962)<br />

Todorovic and<br />

Woolhiser (1975)<br />

Richardson (1981)<br />

Bras and Rodriguez-<br />

Iturbe (1976)<br />

Source: Wilby<br />

Göteborg University http://www.gvc2.gu.se/rcg <strong>Regional</strong> <strong>Climate</strong> <strong>Group</strong><br />

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