3-hourly quantitative precipitation estimation over Central and Northern Europe from rain gauge and radar data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 544-554

  Rubel, Franz ^a   Brugger, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Composite; Network; Precipitation; Rain gauge; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS RESULTS; CLIMATE STATIONS; GROUND TRUTH; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RADAR DATA; RAIN GAUGES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; WEATHER RADARS;

GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; RADAR; RADAR STATIONS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DATA QUALITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINGAUGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449640117     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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