Statistical tests of Taylor's hypothesis: An application to precipitation fields

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 254-265

  Li, Bo ^a,d   Murthi, Adithya ^b   Bowman, Kenneth P ^b   North, Gerald R ^b   Genton, Marc G ^c   Sherman, Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW VELOCITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINFALL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 65349162233     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM1009.1     Document Type: Article

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