Prediction of rainfall intensity measurement errors using commercial microwave communication links

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1385-1402

  Zinevich, A ^a   Messer, H ^a   Alpert, P ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; CLIMATE MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINDROP; RAINGAUGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 82955160837     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-3-1385-2010     Document Type: Article

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