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ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 357-366Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.05.005
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Weather radar; Hydrology; Review
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Hydrology requires accurate and reliable rainfall input. Because of the strong spatial and temporal variability of precipitation, estimation of spatially distributed rain rates is challenging. Despite the fact that weather radars provide high-resolution (but indirect) observations of precipitation, they are not used in hydrological applications as extensively as one could expect. The goal of the present review paper is to investigate this question and to provide a clear view of the opportunities (e. g., for flash floods, urban hydrology, rainfall spatial extremes) the limitations (e. g., complicated error structure, need for adjustment) and the challenges for the use of weather radar in hydrology (i.e., validation studies, precipitation forecasting, mountainous precipitation, error propagation in hydrological models). (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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