A comparison of number-of-rain-days estimation techniques for continental hydrological modelling

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4542-4545

  Symeonakis, Elias ^a,b   Bonifacio, Rogerio ^c   Drake, Nick ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c United Nations WFP   (Sudan)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold cloud duration; Indicator kriging; Logistic regression; Number of rain days; SCS

Indexed keywords

COLD CLOUD DURATION; INDICATOR KRIGING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NUMBER OF RAIN-DAYS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 82355186133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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