Discrepancy between gauges and satellite estimates of rainfall in equatorial Africa

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 666-679

  McCollum, Jeffrey R ^a   Gruber, Arnold ^a   Ba, Mamoudou B ^a,b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033917095     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450-39.5.666     Document Type: Article

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