Flood warning and the use of weather radar in Scotland: A study of flood events in the Ruchill Water catchment

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-52

  Cranston, Michael D ^a   Black, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood forescasting; Flood warning; NIMROD; Ruchill Water; Scotland; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ERRORS; FLOODS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANALYSIS OF DATA; FLOOD WARNING; NIMROD; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS; SCOTLAND; WIND CONDITIONS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOOD FORECASTING; RADAR ALTIMETRY; STORM SURGE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33748176530     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482705001969     Document Type: Article

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