Self-organizing nonlinear output (SONO): A neural network suitable for cloud patch-based rainfall estimation at small scales

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Hong, Yang ^a   Hsu, Kuo Lin ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a   Gao, Xiaogang ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER RESOURCES;

RAIN RATES (RR); RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE RAINFALL ESTIMATION SYSTEM; SELF-ORGANIZING NONLINEAR OUTPUT (SONO);

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 17844365878     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003142     Document Type: Article

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