Sensitivity of forecast rainfall verification to a radar adjustment technique

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 537-543

  Tartaglione, Nazario ^a   Mariani, Stefano ^b,c   Accadia, Christophe ^d   Casaioli, Marco ^b   Gabella, Marco ^e   Michaelides, Silas Chr ^f   Speranza, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b Agenzia per la Protezione dell'Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^e POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^f Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR STATISTICS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIR;

EID: 37849188798     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0155     Document Type: Article

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