Adjustment of state space models in view of area rainfall estimation

Environmetrics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 530-540

  Costa, Marco ^a   Alpuim, Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Area rainfall estimates; Kalman filter; Parameters estimation; State space model

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

ALENQUER BASIN; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL;

EID: 79955573451     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1064     Document Type: Article

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