Spatio-temporal interpolation of precipitation during monsoon periods in Pakistan

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 880-886

  Hussain, Ijaz ^a   Spöck, Gunter ^a   Pilz, Jürgen ^a   Yu, Hwa Lung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayesian interpolation; Hyper parameters; Monsoon precipitation; Non stationary covariance function; Pakistan; Transformed hierarchical Bayesian interpolation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN INTERPOLATION; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; HYPER-PARAMETERS; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; NON-STATIONARY COVARIANCE; PAKISTAN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; INTERPOLATION; WATER RESOURCES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTERPOLATION; MONSOON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 77954952594     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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