Real-time radar-rain-gauge merging using spatio-temporal co-kriging with external drift in the alpine terrain of Switzerland

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 680, 2014, Pages 1097-1111

  Sideris, I V ^a   Gabella, M ^a   Erdin, R ^a   Germann, U ^a  

^a Meteoswiss ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Kriging; Meteorological radar; Precipitation field variability; Quantitative precipitation estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN GAGES;

FIELD VARIABILITY; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; KRIGING; KRIGING WITH EXTERNAL DRIFTS; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMPLEX TERRAIN; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINGAUGE; REAL TIME;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84899473566     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2188     Document Type: Article

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