Operational quality control of daily precipitation using spatio-climatological plausibility testing

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-407

  Scherrer, Simon C ^a   Frei, Christoph ^a   Croci Maspoli, Mischa ^a   Van Geijtenbeek, Deborah ^a   Hotz, Claudine ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; CURRENT CONFIGURATION; DATA EDITOR; DATA QUALITY; FALSE ALARMS; INTERPOLATION ERROR; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; MANUAL INSPECTION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; OPERATIONAL QUALITY; POWER LIMITATIONS; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QC PROCEDURE; SMALL SCALE; WEATHER SERVICES;

ERRORS; INSPECTION; METEOROLOGY; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA QUALITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80053466533     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0236     Document Type: Article

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