Bias adjustment and long-term verification of radar-based precipitation estimates

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-203

  Holleman, Iwan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias adjustment; Hourly; QPE; Radar; Verification

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; VERIFICATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADJUSTMENT METHOD; BIAS ADJUSTMENT; HOURLY; LONG-TERM VERIFICATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; STRAIGHT-FORWARD METHOD; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; SAMPLING BIAS; SEVERE WEATHER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34447096285     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.22     Document Type: Article

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