Estimation of monthly rainfall over oceans from truncated rain-rate samples: Application to SSM/I data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1012-1022

  Hong, Ye ^a,b,c   Wilheit, Thomas T ^b   Russell, William R ^b  

^a Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0004495891     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1997)014<1012:EOMROO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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