Inference of spatial scaling properties of rainfall: Impact of radar rainfall estimation uncertainties

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 812-815

  Villarini, Gabriele ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Radar; Rain; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ERROR MODEL; OKLAHOMA; RADAR RAINFALL; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL FIELDS; RANDOM UNCERTAINTIES; SCALING; SCALING PROPERTIES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL RAINFALL; SPATIAL SCALING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE;

ERROR ANALYSIS; RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

EID: 70350346051     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2025891     Document Type: Article

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