Enhanced radar precipitation estimates using a combined clutter and beam blockage correction technique

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 697-710

  Fornasiero, A ^a,b   Bech, J ^c,d   Alberoni, P P ^a  

^a Arpa Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^b Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario in Monitoraggio Ambientale   (Italy)

^c Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya C Berlin   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER RADAR; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746776179     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-6-697-2006     Document Type: Article

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