Quality control for daily observational rainfall series in the UK

Water and Environment Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 185-193

  Yang, Chi ^a,c   Chandler, R E ^a   Isham, V S ^a   Wheater, H S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Daily rainfall; Data quality; Generalized linear models; Observational series

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN GAGES;

DAILY RAINFALL; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS; RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS;

RAIN;

RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; MODELING; QUALITY CONTROL; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECORDER; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248373689     PISSN: 17476585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-6593.2006.00035.x     Document Type: Article

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