Impact of different regression frameworks on the estimation of the scaling properties of radar rainfall

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 340-349

  Villarini, Gabriele ^a   Lang, Joseph B ^a   Lombardo, Federico ^b   Napolitano, Francesco ^b   Russo, Fabio ^b   Krajewski, Witold F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Radar rainfall; Scaling; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING REGRESSION; RADAR RAINFALL; SEMIPARAMETRIC LINEAR MODEL;

RAIN;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 35648938177     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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