Evaluation of PERSIANN system satellite-based estimates of tropical rainfall

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2035-2046

  Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a   Hsu, Kuo Lin ^a   Gao, Xiaogang ^a   Gupta, Hoshin V ^a   Imam, Bisher ^a   Braithwaite, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0001508343     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2035:EOPSSE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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