Radar rainfall error variance and its impact on radar rainfall calibration

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 28, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 27-39

  Chumchean, Siriluk ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a   Seed, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calibration; Radar rainfall error variance; Rainfall; Reliability; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION;

RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 0037245482     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-7065(03)00005-6     Document Type: Article

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