Rainfall estimation by rain gauge-radar combination: A concurrent multiplicative-additive approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Garcia Pintado, Javier ^a   Barberá, Gonzalo G ^b   Erena, Manuel ^c,d   Castillo, Victor M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^c IMIDA   (Spain)

^d Inst Murciano Invest Desarrollo A   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STORMS;

GAUSSIAN KERNELS; GROUND LEVELS; MEAN FIELDS; MULTI SENSORS; MULTIPLICATIVE FACTORS; NON-UNIFORM; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ORDINARY CO-KRIGING; RADAR BIAS; RADAR DATUM; RADAR DETECTIONS; RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL ESTIMATIONS; SPATIAL FIELDS;

TRACKING RADAR;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SENSOR;

EID: 61349104366     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007011     Document Type: Article

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