Multiple-timescale intercomparison of two radar products and rain gauge observations over the Arkansas-Red River Basin

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1207-1229

  Grassotti, Christopher ^a   Hoffman, Ross N ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^b   Entekhabi, Dara ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; RIVER BASIN PROJECTS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATASETS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE;

ARKANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; RED BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642439228     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<1207:MIOTRP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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