Accumulated rainfall forecast of Typhoon Morakot (2009) in Taiwan using satellite data

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 785-798

  Liu, Chung Chih ^a   Liu, Gin Rong ^b   Lin, Tang Huang ^b   Chao, Chun Chieh ^b  

^a MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accumulated rainfall; Rainfall potential analog forecasting technique; Typhoon morakot (2009)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANALOG MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 78649414683     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2010-501     Document Type: Article

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