Reconstruction of mesoscale precipitation fields from sparse observations in complex terrain

Journal of Climate

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 3289-3306

  Schmidli, J ^a   Frei, C ^a   Schar C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; RAIN;

STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPLEX TERRAIN; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION;

ALPS; EUROPE;

EID: 0035428473     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<3289:ROMPFF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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