Frontal rainfall observation by a commercial microwave communication network

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1317-1334

  Zinevich, Artem ^a   Messer, Hagit ^a   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIRECTION OF MOTION; MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS; NEAR-SURFACE; RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN RATES; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RAINFALL FIELDS; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; SPACE-TIME MODEL; SPATIAL RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME AND SPACE; TIME INTERVAL; WIRELESS MICROWAVES;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE LINKS; MICROWAVES; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RAIN GAGES; REPAIR; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STORMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

RAIN;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRONTAL FEATURE; KALMAN FILTER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RAINSTORM; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 70349661994     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC2014.1     Document Type: Article

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