On the simulation of infiltration- and saturation-excess runoff using radar-based rainfall estimates: Effects of algorithm uncertainty and pixel aggregation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2655-2670

  Winchell, Michael ^a,b   Gupta, Hoshin Vijai ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; RADAR; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REFLECTION; RUNOFF; STORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

INFILTRATION EXCESS RUNOFFS; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; RADAR BASED RAINFALL ESTIMATE; RADAR-ESTIMATED RAINFALL; SATURATION EXCESS RUNOFFS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 0031689648     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02009     Document Type: Article

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