Effect of radar beam geometry on radar rainfall estimation

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn , Issue 282, 2003, Pages 3-10

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Rainfall; Scaling; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

RADAR;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY;

EID: 0041767547     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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