Influence of rain gauge density on interpolation method selection

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Otieno, Hesbon ^a   Yang, Jiaxin ^a   Liu, Weiwen ^a   Han, Dawei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density; Gauging stations; Spatial analysis; Variance analysis

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ERROR STATISTICS; FLOODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXPERIMENTAL CATCHMENTS; GAUGING STATIONS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS-VALIDATION (LOOCV); OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

INTERPOLATION;

DENSITY; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911907010     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: 19435584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000964     Document Type: Article

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