Scale interactions in radar rainfall estimation uncertainty

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 944-953

  Knox, Ryan ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Estimation; Radar; Rainfall; Uncertainty principles

Indexed keywords

DUAL POLARIZATION RADARS; ERROR ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGY; FALSE ALARM RATE; FALSE ALARM RATIO; HIGH RESOLUTION; MEASUREMENT RESOLUTION; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NEGATIVE VALUES; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; RADAR RAINFALL; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL FIELDS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SCALE INTERACTIONS; SKILL SCORE; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AVERAGING; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME AND SPACE; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLES; VALUE ADDED;

ESTIMATION; GAGES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN GAGES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 69249146201     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000068     Document Type: Article

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