Rainfall modeling for integrating radar information into hydrological model

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-30

  Morin, Efrat ^a   Goodrich, David C ^b   Maddox, Robert A ^c   Gao, Xiaogang ^d   Gupta, Hoshin V ^c   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Distributed hydrological models; Rainfall; Spatial patterns; Thunderstorms; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 27544461962     PISSN: 1530261X     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.86     Document Type: Article

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