Evaluation of high-resolution precipitation analyses using a dense station network

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1547-1559

  Kann, A ^a   Meirold Mautner, I ^a   Schmid, F ^a   Kirchengast, G ^b   Fuchsberger, J ^b   Meyer, V ^a   Tuchler L ^a   Bica, B ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAGES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; CROSS VALIDATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; MERGING ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINGAUGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 84961325075     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-1547-2015     Document Type: Article

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