@article {Peleg2014,
	title = {Stochastic convective rain-field simulation using a high-resolution synoptically conditioned weather generator (HiReS-WG)},
	journal = {Water Resources Research},
	volume = {50},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {2124{\textendash}2139},
	abstract = {A new stochastic high-resolution synoptically conditioned weather generator (HiReS-WG) appropriate for climate regimes with a substantial proportion of convective rainfall is presented. The simu- lated rain fields are of high spatial (0.53 0.5 km2) and temporal (5 min) resolution and can be used for most hydrological applications. The WG is composed of four modules: the synoptic generator, the motion vector generator, the convective rain cell generator, and the low-intensity rainfall generator. The HiReS-WG was applied to a study region on the northwestern Israeli coastline in the Eastern Mediterranean, for which 12 year weather radar and synoptic data were extensively analyzed to derive probability distributions of con- vective rain cells and other rainfall properties for different synoptic classifications; these distributions were used as input to the HiReS-WG. Simulated rainfall data for 300 years were evaluated for annual rain depth, season timing, wet-/dry-period durations, rain-intensity distributions, and spatial correlations. In general, the WG well represented the above properties compared to radar and rain-gauge observations from the studied region, with one limitation{\textemdash}an inability to reproduce the most extreme cases. The HiReS-WG is a good tool to study catchments{\textquoteright} hydrological responses to variations in rainfall, especially small-size to medium-size catchments, and it can also be linked to climate models to force the prevailing synoptic conditions.},
	doi = {10.1002/2013WR014836},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013WR014836/full},
	author = {Peleg, Nadav and Morin, Efrat}
}
