Preliminary diagnostics from a new event-based precipitation monitoring system in support of the North American monsoon experiment

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 974-981

  Gochis, David J ^a   Leal, Juan Carlos ^b   Shuttleworth, W James ^c   Watts, Christopher J ^b   Garatuza Payan, Jaime ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Inst del Medio Ambiente y el Desarr   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Instituto Tecnologia de Sonora   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

(NORTHWEST); MEXICO;

EID: 0345581106     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<0974:PDFANE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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