Mean-field rainfall bias studies for WSR-88D

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 149-159

  Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,b   Krajewski, Witold F ^b   Seo, Dong Jun ^c   Johnson, Edward R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HydroLogic   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN GAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL;

RAIN;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAIN GAUGE; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

USA;

EID: 0032122410     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(1998)3:3(149)     Document Type: Article

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