A non-parametric automatic blending methodology to estimate rainfall fields from rain gauge and radar data

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 986-1002

  Velasco Forero, Carlos A ^a   Sempere Torres, Daniel ^a   Cassiraga, Eduardo F ^b   Jaime Gomez Hernandez J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blending; Geostatistics; Merging; Radar rainfall; Rain gauges; Rainfall estimation

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL APPROACH; COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCE; CORRELOGRAM; CORRELOGRAMS; CROSS-VALIDATION ANALYSIS; FLOW ESTIMATION; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING WITH EXTERNAL DRIFTS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; RADAR DATA; RADAR INFORMATION; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADAR RAINFALL; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL ESTIMATION; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL FIELDS; SECONDARY VARIABLES; SEMIVARIOGRAM; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME STEP; WEATHER RADARS;

BLENDING; ESTIMATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MERGING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

GAGES;

FOURIER TRANSFORM; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

EID: 67349130361     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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