A regionalization method based on a cluster probability model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Cowpertwait, Paul S P ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASQUE COUNTRY; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS; DELAUNAY; GAUSSIAN MODEL; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCES; PLANAR GRAPH; PROBABILITY MODELS; RESIDUAL ERROR; SECOND ORDERS; SQUARED DISTANCES; VORONOI TESSELLATIONS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GRAPHICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; REGIONALIZATION; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BASQUE COUNTRY; SPAIN;

EID: 82355190636     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011084     Document Type: Article

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