Quantification of precipitation measurement discontinuity induced by wind shields on national gauges

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 491-508

  Yang, Daqing ^a   Goodison, Barry E ^b   Metcalfe, John R ^b   Louie, Paul ^b   Leavesley, George ^c   Emerson, Douglas ^d   Hanson, Clayton L ^e   Golubev, Valentin S ^f   Elomaa, Esko ^g   Gunther, Thilo ^h   Pangburn, Timothy ⁱ   Kang, Ersi ^j   Milkovic, Janja ^k  

^a Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f STATE HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

ⁱ Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^j Lanzhou Inst Glaciol G   (China)

^k Hydrometeorological Institute   (Croatia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; WIND;

EID: 0032919380     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900042     Document Type: Article

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