Quantitative assessment of operational weather radar rainfall estimates over California's northern Sonoma County using HMT-west data

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 393-410

  Matrosov, Sergey Y ^a   Ralph, F Martin ^b,c   Neiman, Paul J ^b   White, Allen B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Error analysis; Precipitation; Profilers; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894055846     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-045.1     Document Type: Article

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