Radar rainfall estimation in the context of post-event analysis of flash-flood events

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 394, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 17-27

  Bouilloud, Ludovic ^a   Delrieu, Guy ^a   Boudevillain, Brice ^a   Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^b  

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

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Extreme rainfall events; Flash floods; Radar quantitative precipitation estimation

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; EXTREME RAINFALL; FLASH FLOOD; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OBSERVATION CONDITION; OPTIMISATION PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES;

RAIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLASH FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; TIMESCALE;

EID: 78049267187     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.02.035     Document Type: Article

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