The use of scale recursive estimation for short term quantitative precipitation forecast

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1228-1239

  Bocchiola, D ^a   Rosso, R ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Quantitative precipitation forecast; Scale recursive estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

ITERATIVE EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (MLE); QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SCALE RECURSIVE ESTIMATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; STORM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751514360     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.03.019     Document Type: Article

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