TRMM sampling of radar-AMeDAS rainfall using the threshold method

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1480-1492

  Oki, Riko ^a,c   Sumi, Akimasa ^b   Short, David A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL; TRMM;

EID: 0031401869     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1997)036<1480:TSORAR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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