Evaluation of radar precipitation estimates from the national mosaic and multisensor quantitative precipitation estimation system and the WSR-88D precipitation processing system over the conterminous United States

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1080-1093

  Wu, Wanru ^a   Kitzmiller, David ^a   Wu, Shaorong ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TCAssociates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrometeorology

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINGAUGE; SENSOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864741128     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-064.1     Document Type: Article

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