Product-error-driven generator of probable rainfall conditioned on WSR-88D precipitation estimates

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Villarini, Gabriele ^a,b   Krajewski, Witold F ^a   Ciach, Grzegorz J ^a   Zimmerman, Dale L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; WATER;

CHOLESKY DECOMPOSITIONS; DATA SAMPLES; DISTORTION FUNCTIONS; DOPPLER; ERROR STRUCTURES; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITIES; HYDROCLIMATOLOGY; MODEL COMPONENTS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PROBABILITY MAPS; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATIONS; RADAR RAINFALLS; RAINFALL FIELDS; RANDOM COMPONENTS; RANDOM UNCERTAINTIES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL MODELS; TIME-SCALES; UNCERTAINTY MODELS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADARS;

RAIN;

DOPPLER RADAR; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 61349112076     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006946     Document Type: Article

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