A comparison of precipitation datasets for the Amazon basin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-158

  Costa, Marcos Heil ^a,b   Foley, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAGES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; TIME SERIES; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS;

RAIN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AMAZON BASIN; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE;

EID: 0031674223     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03502     Document Type: Article

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