Multisensor precipitation estimation in the NOAA National Weather Service: Recent advances

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'a - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008

Volumn 316, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kitzmiller, David ^a   Ding, Feng ^a   Guan, Shucai ^a   Riley, David ^a   Fresch, Mark ^a   Miller, David ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Zhou, Guoxian ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Precipitation; Sensors; Weather

Indexed keywords

COUNTY WARNING AREAS; CURRENT CAPABILITY; FLASH FLOOD; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; MULTI SENSOR; MULTIPLE RADAR; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; NEW HIGH; OUTPUT PRODUCTS; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RAIN RATES; RAINFALL ANALYSIS; TIME LAG; WEATHER;

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 79251491372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40976(316)389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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