Overview of overland satellite rainfall estimation for hydro-meteorological applications

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 511-537

  Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Lightning; Precipitation; Prediction; Rainfall; Retrieval; Satellite observations; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIOMETERS; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PASSIVE MICROWAVE (PM); PRECIPITATION RADAR (PR); RAINFALL ESTIMATION; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE (SSM);

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; LIGHTNING; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 23344437281     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-004-5724-6     Document Type: Review

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