Extended contingency table: Performance metrics for satellite observations and climate model simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 7144-7149

  Aghakouchak, A ^a   Mehran, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

data validation; performance metrics; volumetric metrics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; DATA VALIDATION; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; MISSED OBSERVATIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VOLUMETRIC METRICS;

CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES; VOLUME;

EID: 84884997187     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20498     Document Type: Article

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