A weather radar data processing module for storm analysis

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 332-344

  Daliakopoulos, Ioannis N ^a   Tsanis, Ioannis K ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Detection; Filters; Matlab; Precipitation; Radar; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865013884     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2011.118     Document Type: Article

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