Radar data quality control methods in VOLTAIRE

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 497-504

  Golz, Claudia ^a   Einfalt, Thomas ^a   Galli, Gianmario ^b  

^a Einfaltandhydrotec GbR   (Germany)

^b MeteoSvizzera   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECKLE;

ALGORITHM; DATA QUALITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DOPPLER RADAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 37849186900     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0151     Document Type: Review

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