Identification of vertical profiles of reflectivity for correction of volumetric radar data using rainfall classification

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2167-2180

  Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Andrieu, Hervé ^b   Delrieu, Guy ^c   Boudevillain, Brice ^c  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^b Division Eau   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA HANDLING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; REFLECTION; STORMS;

CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; HOMOGENEOUS PRECIPITATION; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; NON-UNIFORM BEAM FILLINGS; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; HOMOGENEITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINFALL; REFLECTIVITY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 77958450189     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2369.1     Document Type: Article

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