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Apollon Bournas and Evangelos Baltas
In weather radar applications, the Z-R relationship is considered one of the most crucial factors for providing quality quantitative precipitation estimates. However, the relationship?s parameters vary in time and space, making the derivation of an optim...
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Kindie Engdaw Tadesse, Assefa M. Melesse, Adane Abebe, Haileyesus Belay Lakew and Paolo Paron
This study presents three global precipitation products and their downscaled versions (CHIRPSv2, TAMSATv3, PERSIANN_CDR, CHIRPS_D, PERSIANNN_CDR_D, and TAMSAT_D) estimated with observed values from 1983 to 2014. Performance evaluation of global precipita...
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Mariame Rachdane, El Mahdi El Khalki, Mohamed Elmehdi Saidi, Mohamed Nehmadou, Abdellatif Ahbari and Yves Tramblay
Precipitation is a crucial source of data in hydrological applications for water resources management. However, several regions suffer from limited data from a ground measurement network. Remotely sensed data may provide a viable alternative for these re...
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Apollon Bournas and Evangelos Baltas
In this research work, an analysis is conducted concerning the impact on rainfall-runoff simulations of utilizing rain gauge precipitation measurements against weather radar quantitative precipitation estimates. The study area is the Sarantapotamos river...
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Dayal Wijayarathne, Paulin Coulibaly, Sudesh Boodoo and David Sills
Demand for radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPEs) as precipitation forcing to hydrological models in operational flood forecasting has increased in the recent past. It is practically impossible to get error-free QPEs due to the intrinsic limit...
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Seong Jin Noh, Jun-Hak Lee, Seungsoo Lee and Dong-Jun Seo
Hurricane Harvey was one of the most extreme weather events to occur in Texas, USA; there was a huge amount of urban flooding in the city of Houston and the adjoining coastal areas. In this study, we reanalyze the spatiotemporal evolution of inundation d...
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Michael L. Larsen and Michael Schönhuber
The two-dimensional video distrometer (2DVD) is a well known ground based point-monitoring precipitation gauge, often used as a ground truth instrument to validate radar or satellite rainfall retrieval algorithms. This instrument records a number of vari...
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Alan K. Betts and Raymond L. Desjardins
Analysis of the hourly Canadian Prairie data for the past 60 years has transformed our quantitative understanding of land–atmosphere–cloud coupling. The key reason is that trained observers made hourly estimates of the opaque cloud fraction t...
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Marie Parrens, Ahmad Al Bitar, Frédéric Frappart, Fabrice Papa, Stephane Calmant, Jean-François Crétaux, Jean-Pierre Wigneron and Yann Kerr
Inland surface waters in tropical environments play a major role in the water and carbon cycle. Remote sensing techniques based on passive, active microwave or optical wavelengths are commonly used to provide quantitative estimates of surface water exten...
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D. J. GOCHIS,S. W. NESBITT,W. YU,S. F. WILLIAMS
Satellite-based quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) offer the potential for global, near real-time monitoring of precipitation. Provided their accuracy, in terms of frequency and intensity structures, can be verified, such products would prove...
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