Influence of errors in radar rainfall estimates on hydrological modeling prediction uncertainty

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Borga, Marco ^a   Degli Esposti, Silvia ^a   Norbiato, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; RANDOM ERRORS;

GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION PROCEDURE (GLUE); PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

RAIN;

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; RAIN; RANDOM ERRORS;

DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 33749416776     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004559     Document Type: Article

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