Application of weather radar data for urban hydrology

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-104

  Tilford, K A ^a,b   Fox, N I ^a   Collier, C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ATKINS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DRAINAGE; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; POTABLE WATER; RAIN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY MATCHING; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; REAL-TIME DATA PROCESSING; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WEATHER RADAR DATA;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA PROCESSING; RAINGAUGE; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DRAINAGE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 0042880029     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135048270200110X     Document Type: Article

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