Evaluation of precipitation from numerical weather prediction models and satellites using values retrieved from radars

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3750-3766

  Vasić, Slavko ^a   Lin, Charles A ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^a   Bousquet, Olivier ^b   Chaumont, Diane ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^c Ouranos Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

SCALE DECOMPOSITION METHODS; WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36749062417     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1955.1     Document Type: Article

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