The potential of urban rainfall monitoring with crowdsourced automatic weather stations in Amsterdam

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 765-777

  De Vos, Lotte ^a,b   Leijnse, Hidde ^b   Overeem, Aart ^a,b   Uijlenhoet, Remko ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DATA TRANSFER; GAGES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR STATIONS; RAIN GAGES; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LOW-INTENSITY RAINFALL; RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS; RAINFALL MONITORING NETWORK; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SPATIAL RAINFALL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

RAIN;

CROWDSOURCING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SENSOR; URBAN AREA; WEATHER STATION;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

EID: 85011891319     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-765-2017     Document Type: Article

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