Non-parametric error distribution analysis from the laboratory calibration of various rainfall intensity gauges

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1745-1752

  Lanza, L G ^a,b   Stagi, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b WMO/CIMO Lead Centre B Castelli on Precipitation Intensity   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Precision; Rain gauges; Rainfall intensity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; AFFECTING FACTORS; CALIBRATION TESTS; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIANS; INSTRUMENT DESIGNS; INSTRUMENT MODELS; INTERCOMPARISONS; MEAN VALUES; MULTIPLE COMPARISON; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; ONE-WAY ANOVA; PRECISION; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN-INTENSITY; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RELATIVE ERRORS; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

ERRORS; RAIN;

GAGES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRECISION; RAINGAUGE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL INTENSITY GAUGE;

CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN;

EID: 84861477296     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2012.075     Document Type: Article

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