An examination of summer precipitation over Asia based on TRMM/TMI

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 430-441

  Liu, Qi ^a   Fu, Yunfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

GPCP; Hydrometeor profiles; Precipitation discrepancy; TMI; TRMM

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; RAIN GAGES;

HYDROMETEOR PROFILES; PRECIPITATION DISCREPANCY;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER;

ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 33947305949     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0020-1     Document Type: Article

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