Bias correction of daily precipitation measurements for Greenland

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D6, 1999, Pages 6171-6181

  Yang, Daqing ^a,d   Ishida, Shig ^b   Goodison, Barry E ^b   Gunther, Thilo ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033608686     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JD200110     Document Type: Article

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