Simulation of sampling error of average rainfall rates in space and time by five satellites using radar-AMeDAS composites

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Iida, Yasuhisa ^a   Okamoto, Ken'ichi ^a   Ushio, Tomoo ^a   Oki, Riko ^b  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SAMPLING;

ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE SAMPLING ERROR; SAMPLING ERRORS; SATELLITE-BORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

RAINFALL; SAMPLING BIAS; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 33644628756     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024910     Document Type: Article

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