Influence of small scale rainfall variability on standard comparison tools between radar and rain gauge data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 125-138

  Gires, Auguste ^a   Tchiguirinskaia, Ioulia ^a   Schertzer, Daniel ^a   Schellart, Alma ^b   Berne, Alexis ^c   Lovejoy, Shaun ^d  

^a Universite Paris Est   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Downscaling; Radar rain gauge comparison; Universal Multifractals

Indexed keywords

DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSCALING PROCESS; POINT MEASUREMENT; RADAR-RAIN GAUGE COMPARISON; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSAL MULTI-FRACTALS;

FRACTALS; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN GAGES; TOOLS;

RAIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; MODEL VALIDATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

BRADFORD [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; LAUSANNE; SEINE-SAINT DENIS; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; VAUD;

EID: 84888793194     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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