Improving WSR-88D hourly rainfall estimates

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1016-1028

  Pereira Fo, Augusto J ^a   Crawford, Kenneth C ^b   Hartzell, Curtis L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

PRECIPITATION FIELDS; RAINFALL ESTIMATES;

RAIN;

ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032419441     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<1016:IWHRE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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