Radar rainfall estimation of stratiform winter precipitation in the Belgian Ardennes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hazenberg, P ^a   Leijnse, H ^a,b   Uijlenhoet, R ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS PROPAGATION; BIAS CORRECTION; CLOSE RANGE; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; GROUND CLUTTER; MULTIPLE SOURCE; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS; RADAR DATA; RADAR RAINFALL; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; REMAINING DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; VERTICAL PROFILE OF REFLECTIVITIES; WEALTH OF INFORMATION; WEATHER RADARS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ADVECTION; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ESTIMATION; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; RAIN GAGES;

RAIN;

ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINGAUGE; REFLECTIVITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ARDENNES [WESTERN EUROPE]; BELGIUM;

EID: 79851479216     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009068     Document Type: Article

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