Statistical methods of estimating average rainfall over large space-timescales using data from the TRMM precipitation radar

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 568-585

  Meneghini, R ^a   Jones, J A ^a   Iguchi, T ^a   Okamoto, K ^a   Kwiatkowski, J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PRECIPITATION RADAR; RAINFALL RATE;

RAIN;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035270957     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2001)040<0568:SMOEAR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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