Comparing grey formulations of the velocity-area method and entropy method for discharge estimation with uncertainty

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 797-811

  Alvisi, Stefano ^a   Barbetta, Silvia ^b   Franchini, Marco ^b   Melone, Florisa ^b   Moramarco, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discharge calculation; Flow velocity; Grey number; Measurement uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919970902     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2013.160     Document Type: Article

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