Sampling-induced conditional biases in satellite climate-scale rainfall estimates

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 541-548

  Morrissey, Mark L ^a   Janowiak, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION STRUCTURE; CLIMATE-SCALE RAINFALL; SAMPLING-INDUCED BIAS; TEMPORAL SAMPLING ERROR;

EID: 0030470934     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0541:SICBIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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