GIS-based spatial precipitation estimation using next generation radar and raingauge data

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1781-1788

  Zhang, Xuesong ^a   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic Information System; Geostatistics; Next Generation Radar; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT METHOD; BATCH PROCESS; BIAS CORRECTION; CALIBRATION METHOD; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS VALIDATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOPROCESSING; GEORGIA; GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACH; GIS SOFTWARE; HIGH RESOLUTION; INPUT VARIABLES; KRIGING; LAND SURFACE; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; LOCAL MEAN; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MULTIPLE METHODS; NEXT GENERATION RADAR; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION MAP; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PUBLIC DOMAINS; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SIMPLE KRIGING; SPATIAL AVERAGE; SPATIAL MODELING; VALIDATION RESULTS;

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; RADAR; RAIN;

METADATA;

CALIBRATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINGAUGE; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054697441     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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