A comparison of geostatistical methodologies used to estimate snow water equivalent

Water Resources Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 267-278

  Carroll, Steven S ^a   Cressie, Noel ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

cross validation; modeling statistics; ordinary kriging; snow and ice hydrology; universal kriging

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW;

GEOSTATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 0030130567     PISSN: 00431370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1996.tb03450.x     Document Type: Article

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