The New French operational radar rainfall product. Part II: Validation

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 409-427

  Tabary, Pierre ^a   Desplats, J ^a   Do Khac, K ^a   Eideliman, F ^a   Gueguen, C ^a   Heinrich, J C ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; RADAR REFLECTION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RADAR-BASED RAINFALL PRODUCT; RAINFALL ESTIMATION; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITY;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADIOSONDE; REFLECTIVITY;

EID: 34447633216     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1005.1     Document Type: Article

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