Radar precipitation measurement in a mountainous region

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 618 A, 2006, Pages 1669-1692

  Germann, Urs ^a   Galli, Gianmario ^a   Boscacci, Marco ^a   Bolliger, Martin ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine radar; Ground clutter elimination; Objective verification; Orographic precipitation; Quantitative precipitation estimation

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR CLUTTER;

GROUND CLUTTER ELIMINATION; OBJECTIVE VERIFICATION; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINGAUGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33748803895     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.190     Document Type: Article

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