Kernel-based mapping of orographic rainfall enhancement in the swiss alps as detected by weather radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2954-2967

  Foresti, Loris ^a   Kanevski, Mikhail ^a   Pozdnoukhov, Alexei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

August 2005 floods; Digital elevation model (DEM); one class support vector machines (SVMs) (OC SVMs); rainfall triggering enhancement; site based validation; weather radar

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE INITIATION; DECISION FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW FEATURES; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; HIGH CLASS; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; ONE-CLASS SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION ENHANCEMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; SHORT-TERM FORECASTS; SITE-BASED VALIDATION; SPATIAL PREDICTION; SPATIAL SCALE; STATIONARY CELLS; SWISS ALPS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; VELOCITY FIELD;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR; VELOCITY;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84864277874     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2179550     Document Type: Article

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