Commercial microwave links instead of rain gauges: Fiction or reality?

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-37

  Fencl, Martin ^a   Rieckermann, Jörg ^b   Sýkora, Petr ^c   Stránský, David ^a   Bareš, Vojtěch ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Prague Water Supply and Sewerage System Company   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Areal rainfall; QPE; Rainfall monitoring; Rainfall spatial variability; Telecommunication microwave links; Urban hydrology

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GAGES; HYDROLOGY; MICROWAVE LINKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

PRAGUE , CZECH REPUBLIC; QPE; RAINFALL ESTIMATIONS; RAINFALL SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; URBAN DRAINAGE DESIGNS; URBAN HYDROLOGY;

RAIN;

RAIN; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; URBAN DRAINAGE;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CATCHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GAUGE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CZECH REPUBLIC; PRAGUE;

CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN;

EID: 84923511702     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2014.466     Document Type: Article

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