Adequacy of using a 1/3-degree special sensor microwave imager dataset to estimate climate-scale rainfall

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 680-685

  Li, Qihang ^a,c   Ferraro, Ralph ^b   Grody, Norman ^b  

^a Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFALL; SSM-I;

EID: 0033929226     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450-39.5.680     Document Type: Article

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