An assessment of kriging-based rain-gauge-radar merging techniques

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 691, 2015, Pages 2300-2313

  Jewell, Sharon A ^a   Gaussiat, Nicolas ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gauge radar merging; Kriging; Radar; Rain gauges

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; INTERPOLATION; RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

ACCUMULATION PERIODS; KRIGING; KRIGING WITH EXTERNAL DRIFTS; MERGING TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL THRESHOLDS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

MERGING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ERROR CORRECTION; KRIGING; METEOROLOGY; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84941128494     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2522     Document Type: Article

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