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Syst Sci 17(6):2195–2208
90. Smith JA, Krajewski WF (1991) Estimation of the mean field bias of radar rainfall estimates.
J Appl Meteorol 30(4):397–412
91. Brandes EA (1975) Optimizing rainfall estimates with the aid of radar. J Appl Meteorol 14
(7):1339–1345
92. Koistinen J, Michelson DB (2002) Baltex weather radar-based precipitation products and their
accuracies. Boreal Environ Res 7(3):253–263
93. Ehret U, Götzinger J, Bárdossy A, Pegram GG (2008) Radar-based flood forecasting in small
catchments, exemplified by the Goldersbach catchment, Germany. Int J River Basin Manag 6
(4):323–329
94. Sinclair S, Pegram G (2005) Combining radar and rain gauge rainfall estimates using conditional merging. Atmos Sci Lett 6(1):19–22
95. Delrieu G, Wijbrans A, Boudevillain B, Faure D, Bonnifait L, Kirstetter P-E (2014)
Geostatistical radar–raingauge merging: a novel method for the quantification of rain estimation accuracy. Adv Water Resour 71:110–124
96. Chumchean S, Seed A, Sharma A (2006) Correcting of real-time radar rainfall bias using a
Kalman filtering approach. J Hydrol 317(1):123–137
97. Chumchean S, Sharma A, Seed A (2006) An integrated approach to error correction for realtime radar-rainfall estimation. J Atmos Ocean Technol 23(1):67–79
98. Fulton RA, Breidenbach JP, Seo D-J, Miller DA, O’Bannon T (1998) The WSR-88D rainfall
algorithm. Weather Forecast 13(2):377–395
99. Anagnostou EN, Krajewski WF (1998) Calibration of the WSR-88D precipitation processing
subsystem. Weather Forecast 13(2):396–406
100. Wilson JW (1970) Integration of radar and raingage data for improved rainfall measurement.
J Appl Meteorol 9(3):489–497
101. Collier C (1986) Accuracy of rainfall estimates by radar, part II: comparison with raingauge
network. J Hydrol 83(3–4):225–235
102. Harrison DL, Scovell RW, Kitchen M (2009) High-resolution precipitation estimates for
hydrological uses. In: Proceedings of the institution of civil engineers-water management,
vol 162. Thomas Telford Ltd, London, pp 125–135
103. Seo D-J, Breidenbach J, Johnson E (1999) Real-time estimation of mean field bias in radar
rainfall data. J Hydrol 223(3):131–147
104. Wackernagel H (1996) Multivariate geostatistics: an introduction with applications. Int J Rock
Mech Min Sci Geomech Abstr 8:363A
105. Verworn A, Haberlandt U (2011) Spatial interpolation of hourly rainfall – effect of additional
information, variogram inference and storm properties. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci 15(2):569–584
106. Holawe F, Dutter R (1999) Geostatistical study of precipitation series in Austria: time and
space. J Hydrol 219(1):70–82
107. Skøien JO, Blöschl G, Western A (2003) Characteristic space scales and timescales in
hydrology. Water Resour Res 39(10):1304
108. Van De Beek C, Leijnse H, Torfs P, Uijlenhoet R (2011) Climatology of daily rainfall semivariance in the Netherlands. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci 15(1):171
109. Yao T, Journel AG (1998) Automatic modeling of (cross) covariance tables using fast fourier
transform. Math Geol 30(6):589–615
110. Velasco-Forero CA, Sempere-Torres D, Cassiraga EF, Gómez-Hernández JJ (2009) A nonparametric automatic blending methodology to estimate rainfall fields from rain gauge and
radar data. Adv Water Resour 32(7):986–1002
111. Goudenhoofdt E, Delobbe L (2009) Evaluation of radar-gauge merging methods for quantitative precipitation estimates. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci 13(2):195–203
256
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