Uncertainty of estimates of monthly areal rainfall for temporally sparse remote observations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 373-388

  Steiner, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AUSTRALIA; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THUMB; UNITED STATES;

AREAL RAINFALL; RAINFALL DEPTH;

EID: 0029663875     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR03396     Document Type: Article

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