Simulation of radar reflectivity fields: Algorithm formulation and evaluation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1419-1428

  Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,b   Krajewski, Witold F ^a,b  

^a University of Iowa ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR REFLECTIVITY; RAINFALL MODELLING; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WEATHER RADAR;

ALGORITHMS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA BEAM PATTERNS; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RANDOM MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SIMULATION PROCEDURES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; TWO DIMENSIONAL FIELD; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030616504     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR00233     Document Type: Article

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