Short-term forecasting of urban storm water runoff in real-time using extrapolated radar rainfall data

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 897-912

  Thorndahl, S ^a   Rasmussen, M R ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Auto calibration; Forecasting; Radar; Real time control; Urban drainage modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881165629     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2013.161     Document Type: Article

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