Precipitation estimation from remotely sensed information using artificial neural networks

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1176-1190

  Hsu, Kou Lin ^a   Gao, Xiaogang ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a   Gupta, Hoshin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031399333     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1997)036<1176:PEFRSI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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