Estimating rainfall intensities from weather radar data: The scale-dependency problem

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 782-797

  Morin, Efrat ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^b   Goodrich, David C ^c   Gao, Xiaogang ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; RAINFALL; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0344718934     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<0782:ERIFWR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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