A 10-yr climatology of amazonian rainfall derived from passive microwave satellite observations

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 42-56

  Negri, Andrew J ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,b,c   Adler, Robert F ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SSM-I;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0034033165     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<0042:AYCOAR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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