The New French operational radar rainfall product. Part I: Methodology

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-408

  Tabary, Pierre ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; RADAR REFLECTION; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RADAR NETWORK; RADAR RAINFALL PRODUCT; REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; RAINGAUGE; REFLECTIVITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 34447638922     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1004.1     Document Type: Article

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