High-resolution space-time rainfall analysis using integrated ANN inference systems

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 387, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 328-342

  Langella, G ^a,b   Basile, A ^b   Bonfante, A ^b   Terribile, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Indicator kriging; Neural network ensemble; Space time rainfall field; Spatial map; Time series inference

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP; INDICATOR KRIGING; NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLE; RAINFALL FIELDS; SPATIAL MAP;

FORESTRY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INTERPOLATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA SET; KRIGING; RAINFALL; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 77958489667     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.04.027     Document Type: Article

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