Uncertainty of monthly rainfall estimates from rain gauges in the Global Precipitation Climatology Project

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2647-2654

  McCollum, Jeffrey R ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 0031705710     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02173     Document Type: Article

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