Forensic analysis of accumulation of rainfall error in hydrologic models

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 168-178

  Raj, Preethi ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation of mass; Error budgets; Hydrologic models; Satellite rainfall; Systematic and random error

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949550084     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920903559099     Document Type: Article

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