The new French operational polarimetric radar rainfall rate product

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1817-1835

  Ventura, Jordi Figueras I ^a   Tabary, Pierre ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; ELLIPSOMETRY; ENERGY GAP; RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; PROCESSING CHAIN; RADAR RAINFALL; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAINFALL RATES; SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIAL PHASE;

POLARIMETERS;

ALGORITHM; METROPOLITAN AREA; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

ALPS; FRANCE;

EID: 84884246835     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jamc-d-12-0179.1     Document Type: Article

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