The Comparison of Two Merged Rain Gauge-Satellite Precipitation Datasets

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2631-2644

  Gruber, Arnold ^a   Su, Xiujuan ^b   Kanamitsu, M ^b   Schemm, J ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0001489182     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2631:TCOTMR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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