Measuring urban rainfall using microwave links from commercial cellular communication networks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Overeem, A ^a,b   Leijnse, H ^b   Uijlenhoet, R ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATA SETS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE; LARGE PARTS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; NETHERLANDS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RADAR DATA; RADAR RAINFALL; RAINFALL DEPTHS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINY DAYS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; ROTTERDAM; SIGNAL FLUCTUATIONS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; TEMPORAL RAINFALL VARIATION; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; URBAN AREAS; WET AND DRY; WET ANTENNAS;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; ESTIMATION; GAGES; MICROWAVE LINKS; RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NETWORKING; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

NETHERLANDS; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND;

EID: 82955173788     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010350     Document Type: Article

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