A study of the error covariance matrix of radar rainfall estimates in stratiform rain. Part II: Scale dependence

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 800-811

  Berenguer, Marc ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISDROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; ERROR COVARIANCE MATRIX; GRID POINTS; MESOSCALE MODEL; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADAR RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY PROFILES; S-BAND RADAR; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ERRORS; MODELS; RADAR; RAIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINFALL; WAVELENGTH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 69949178372     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222210.1     Document Type: Article

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