Bollène-2002 experiment: Radar quantitative precipitation estimation in the Cévennes-Vivarais Region, France

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1422-1447

  Delrieu, Guy ^a   Boudevillain, Brice ^a   Nicol, John ^a   Chapon, Benoît ^a   Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Andrieu, Hervé ^b   Faure, D ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Division Eau   (France)

^c Alicime   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA HANDLING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REFLECTION; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC CALIBRATION; IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE; STABILITY VERIFICATION; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ARDECHE; CEVENNES; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; RHONE-ALPES; VIVARAIS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349696339     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1987.1     Document Type: Article

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