Estimation of daily area-average rainfall in central florida using arithmetic averaging and kriging

Physical Geography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 42-58

  Yuan, May ^a   Duchon, Claude E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area average rainfall; CaPE; Florida; Kriging

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; KRIGING; RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 0034836442     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2001.10642729     Document Type: Article

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