Archival precipitation data set for the Mississippi River Basin: Evaluation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Nelson, Brian R ^a,b   Krajewski, Witold F ^a   Smith, James A ^c   Habib, Emad ^d   Hoogenboom, Gerrit ^e  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^e University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN GAGES; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARCHIVAL PRECIPITATION; ATMOSPHERIC HYDROLOGIC CYCLE; RADAR REFLECTIVITY; SURFACE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; RIVER BASIN;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27744431565     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023334     Document Type: Article

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