Comparisons between NEXRAD radar and tipping-bucket gage rainfall data: A case study for Dupage County, Illinois

Restoring Our Natural Habitat - Proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Over, T M ^a   Murphy, E A ^a   Ortel, T W ^a   Ishii, A L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON STUDY; DAILY RAINFALL; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTREME VALUE; HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; ILLINOIS; MULTI SENSOR; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; NEXRAD RADAR; NEXT GENERATION WEATHER RADARS; RADAR DATA; RADAR SITES; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF SIMULATIONS; SPATIAL AVERAGE; TIME-SCALES; TIPPING-BUCKET RAIN GAGES;

ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 80051614402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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