Characteristics of reprocessed Hydrometeorological automated data system (HADS) hourly precipitation data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1287-1296

  Kim, Dongsoo ^a   Nelson, Brian ^a   Seo, Dong Jun ^b,c  

^a NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DATA SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; MISSING VALUES; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; OBJECTIVE METRICS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; PRODUCT QUALITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RAIN GAUGES; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME DATA ACQUISITION; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE;

CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DATA PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549143117     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222227.1     Document Type: Article

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