A method for filtering out raingauge representativeness errors from the verification distributions of radar and raingauge rainfall

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 967-980

  Habib, Emad ^a   Ciach, Grzegorz J ^b   Krajewski, Witold F ^b  

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area point errors; Radar rainfall; Rainfall verification; Raingauge

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WATERSHEDS;

CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMATION (CDT); GROUND REFERENCE (GR); RADAR RAINFALL (RR); RAINGAUGE MEASUREMENTS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

GOODWIN CREEK; LITTLE WASHITA RIVER; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6444239310     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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