Sensitivity analysis of variability in reflectivity-rainfall relationships on runoff prediction

87th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Malakpet, Chakradhar Goud ^a   Habib, Emad ^a   Meselhe, Ehab A ^a   Tokay, Ali ^b  

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS REMOVAL; CLIMATOLOGICAL SCALE; DISDROMETERS; ESTIMATION METHODS; ESTIMATION TIME; LEAST SQUARE; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PROCESS TIME; RADAR DATA; RADAR SITES; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RAINFALL RATES; REFLECTIVITY DATA; RUNOFF PREDICTION; TIME-SCALES; TWO PARAMETER;

FORECASTING; RADAR; REFLECTION; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77949285245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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