Validating NEXRAD MPE and Stage III precipitation products for uniform rainfall on the Upper Guadalupe River Basin of the Texas Hill Country

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 348, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 73-86

  Wang, Xianwei ^a   Xie, Hongjie ^a   Sharif, Hatim ^a   Zeitler, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

MPE; NEXRAD; Precipitation evaluation; Rain gauge; Stage III

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RADAR;

NEXRAD; PRECIPITATION EVALUATION; RAIN GAUGE;

RAIN;

ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RADAR; RAIN;

DETECTION METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

GUADALUPE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41649084551     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.057     Document Type: Article

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