The threshold method for estimating total rainfall

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-213

  Mase, Shigeru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gibbsian process; Lattice gas model; Linear regression; Marked spatial point process; Meteorology; Non ergodicity; Phase transition; Potential; Radar; Rainfall; Threshold method

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CORRELATION; GIBBS STATE; LATTICE GAS; LINEAR REGRESSION; POINT PROCESS; RAINFALL RATE RECORDING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 0030376867     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00054785     Document Type: Article

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