Attenuation Correction Effects in Rainfall Estimation at X-Band Dual-Polarization Radar: Evaluation with a Dense Rain Gauge Network

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2016/9716535/figures/9716535.fig.0015a.svgz" name="9716535.fig.0015a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>Normalized bias</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2016/9716535/figures/9716535.fig.0015b.svgz" name="9716535.fig.0015b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>Normalized standard deviation</td></tr></table>

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Figure 15: Attenuation Correction Effects in Rainfall Estimation at X-Band Dual-Polarization Radar: Evaluation with a Dense Rain Gauge Network 