Bias adjustment and advection interpolation of long-term high resolution radar rainfall series

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 508, Issue , 2014, Pages 214-226

  Thorndahl, Søren ^a   Nielsen, Jesper E ^a   Rasmussen, Michael R ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Advection interpolation; Long term rainseries; Mean field bias adjustment; Quantitative precipitation estimates; Radar rainfall

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; REFLECTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; LONG-TERM RAINSERIES; MEAN FIELD; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES; RADAR RAINFALL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

RAIN;

ADVECTION; DROPLET; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DENMARK;

EID: 84888416833     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.10.056     Document Type: Article

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