Uncertainty quantification of satellite precipitation estimation and Monte Carlo assessment of the error propagation into hydrologic response

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Hong, Yang ^a,b   Hsu, Kuo Lin ^a   Moradkhani, Hamid ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; SATELLITES;

HYDROLOGIC RESPONSES; HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STREAM FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; SATELLITES; STREAM FLOW;

ERROR CORRECTION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LEAF RIVER; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749405835     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004398     Document Type: Article

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