On the estimation of radar rainfall error variance

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 585-595

  Ciach, Grzegorz J ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ERROR SEPARATION METHOD; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; RADAR RAINFALL ERROR VARIANCE; RADAR RAINGAUGE DIFFERENCE VARIANCE;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADAR; RAINFALL;

EID: 0033599340     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(98)00043-8     Document Type: Article

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