Adjustments for wind sampling errors in an estimate of the atmospheric water budget of the Mississippi River basin

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 518-529

  Kanamaru, Hideki ^a   Salvucci, Guido D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RIVER BASIN; SAMPLING; WATER; WIND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042848678     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<0518:AFWSEI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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