Toward an error model for radar quantitative precipitation estimation in the Cévennes-Vivarais region, France

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 394, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 28-41

  Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Delrieu, Guy ^b   Boudevillain, Brice ^b   Obled, Charles ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Estimation variance; Geostatistics; Radar QPE; Raingauge; Space time structure; Statistical distribution

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; RADAR; RAIN;

ESTIMATION VARIANCE; GEO-STATISTICS; RAIN GAUGES; SPACETIME STRUCTURES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; KRIGING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINGAUGE; VARIOGRAM;

ARDECHE; CEVENNES; FRANCE; RHONE-ALPES; VIVARAIS;

EID: 77957582207     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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