An operational weather radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation and its application in catchment water resources modeling

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-24

  He, Xin ^a,b   Vejen, Flemming ^b   Stisen, Simon ^c   Sonnenborg, Torben O ^c   Jensen, Karsten H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREAL ESTIMATION; DENMARK; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; GROUND BASED; GROUND SURFACES; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; MODEL PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RADAR DATA; RADAR NETWORK; RIVER CATCHMENT; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAM DISCHARGE; WATER BALANCE; WATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENT; WATER RESOURCES MODELING;

CATCHMENTS; DOPPLER RADAR; ESTIMATION; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; CATCHMENT; DOPPLER RADAR; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINGAUGE; RECHARGE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE;

DENMARK; MIDTJYLLAND; SKJERN RIVER;

EID: 79960153334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0034     Document Type: Article

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