Entropy and kriging approach to rainfall network design

Paddy and Water Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-355

  Yeh, Hui Chung ^a   Chen, Yen Chang ^b   Wei, Chiang ^c   Chen, Ru Huei ^b  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Entropy; Kriging; Rainfall network

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE DESIGN; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; INFORMATION ENTROPY; JOINT ENTROPY; KRIGING; KRIGING APPROACH; NETWORK DESIGN; OPTIMAL DESIGN; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; ORDINARY KRIGING; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

CATCHMENTS; DESIGN; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAGES; INTERPOLATION; LOCATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF;

RAIN;

EID: 79961209769     PISSN: 16112490     EISSN: 16112504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10333-010-0247-x     Document Type: Article

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