Quality control of daily rainfall data with neural networks

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 364, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 13-22

  Sciuto, G ^a   Bonaccorso, B ^a   Cancelliere, A ^a   Rossi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neural networks; Quality control; Rainfall data

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATIC STATIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DAILY RAINFALLS; DATA SETS; HISTORICAL DATUMS; RAINFALL DATA; REFERENCE STATIONS; TIME SCALES; ZERO VALUES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAINFALL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 57649233738     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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