Rainfall monitoring based on microwave links from cellular telecommunication networks: First results from a West African test bed

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6016-6022

  Doumounia, Ali ^a   Gosset, Marielle ^b   Cazenave, Frederic ^c   Kacou, Modeste ^b,d   Zougmore, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE LINKS; RAIN GAGES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

BURKINA FASO; CELLULAR PHONE; CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATION; MONSOON SEASON; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS; RAIN GAUGES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

RAIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

BURKINA FASO; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84906008383     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060724     Document Type: Article

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