Experimental results on rainfall estimation in complex terrain with a mobile X-band polarimetric weather radar

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 579-595

  Anagnostou, Marios N ^a   Kalogiros, John ^b   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,c   Papadopoulos, Anastasios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Dual polarization; Rainfall; Vertical profile of reflectivity; X band

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; AREAS OF INTERESTS; COMPLEX TERRAINS; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE MEASUREMENTS; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; FLOOD FORECASTING; GROUND CLUTTER; HIGH ELEVATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; PLAN POSITION INDICATORS; PROCESSING STEPS; RADAR CALIBRATION; RADAR DATA; RAIN ATTENUATION CORRECTION; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN MEASUREMENT; RAINFALL ESTIMATIONS; RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS; RAINFALL RATES; RAINGAUGES; RANGE-HEIGHT INDICATORS; TERRAIN DATA; TERRAIN EFFECT; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES; VIDEO DISDROMETER; WEATHER RADARS; X-BAND DUAL-POLARIZATION RADARS; X-BAND RADARS;

FLOOD CONTROL; LANDFORMS; MEASUREMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PHASE MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REFLECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; COMPLEX TERRAIN; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD FORECASTING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449670657     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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