An appraisal of the performance of data-infilling methods for application to daily mean river flow records in the UK

Hydrology Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 618-636

  Harvey, Catherine L ^a   Dixon, Harry ^a   Hannaford, Jamie ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equipercentile; Hydrometric data; Infilling; Missing data; River flows; Time series

Indexed keywords

EQUIPERCENTILE; HYDROMETRIC DATA; INFILLING; MISSING DATA; RIVER FLOW;

CATCHMENTS; DATA TRANSFER; TIME SERIES;

STREAM FLOW;

DATA SET; HOMOGENEITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; RIVER FLOW; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIME SERIES; WATER RESOURCE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84870248559     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2012.110     Document Type: Article

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