Matching method applied to composite radar data in Central Florida

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1203-1219

  Crosson, William L ^a,d   Duchon, Claude E ^b   Raghavan, Ravikumar ^a   Goodman, Steven J ^c  

^a Inst Global Change Res and Educ   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Global Hydrology and Climate Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY MATCHING METHOD; RADAR DATA; RAINFALL;

USA, FLORIDA;

EID: 0030437672     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<1203:aoreua>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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