Correcting wind-induced bias in solid precipitation measurements in case of limited and uncertain data

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3393-3402

  Fortin, Vincent ^a   Therrien, Charles ^b   Anctil, François ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias correction; DFIR; Precipitation gauge; Snow measurement; Weighted least squares; Wind effect

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATA FUSION; ERRORS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SPEED; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

BIAS CORRECTION; DFIR; PRECIPITATION GAUGE; SNOW MEASUREMENT; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; WIND EFFECT;

GAGES;

ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING BIAS; SNOW; WIND VELOCITY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 50449106289     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6959     Document Type: Article

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