Characterizing spatiotemporal variations of hourly rainfall by gauge and radar in the mountainous three gorges region

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 873-889

  Li, Zhe ^a   Yang, Dawen ^a   Hong, Yang ^b   Zhang, Jian ^c   Qi, Youcun ^b,d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAGES; RADAR; STORMS;

CORRELATION DISTANCE; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; THREE GORGES REGION;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

EID: 84897970304     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0277.1     Document Type: Article

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