Bias corrections of long-term (1973-2004) daily precipitation data over the northern regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Yang, Daqing ^a   Kane, Douglas ^a   Zhang, Zhongping ^a   Legates, David ^b   Goodison, Barry ^c  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS; BUDGET CONTROL; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SNOW;

CORRECTION FACTORS (CF); PRECIPITATION GAUGE MEASUREMENT; WIND-INDUCED UNDERCATCH;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); GAGES;

ERROR CORRECTION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

BIAS CORRECTION; CORRECTION FACTORS; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; NORTHERN REGIONS; PRECIPITATION GAUGE MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; WIND-INDUCED UNDERCATCH;

EID: 28144435708     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024057     Document Type: Article

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