Estimation of the spatial rainfall distribution using inverse distance weighting (IDW) in the middle of Taiwan

Paddy and Water Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 209-222

  Chen, Feng Wen ^a,b   Liu, Chen Wuing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Agricultural Engineering Research Center Chungli   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Inverse distance weighting (IDW); Omission; Rainfall data; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL PARAMETERS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITICAL PARAMETER; CROSS VALIDATION; DRY SEASONS; FLOOD SEASON; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING METHOD; OMISSION; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; RADIUS OF INFLUENCES; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL RAINFALL;

INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION;

RAIN;

EID: 84865426384     PISSN: 16112490     EISSN: 16112504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10333-012-0319-1     Document Type: Article

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