An improved gridded historical daily precipitation analysis for Brazil

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 847-861

  Silva, Viviane B S ^a,c   Kousky, Vernon E ^b   Shi, Wei ^b   Higgins, R Wayne ^b  

^a RS Information Systems   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34848823131     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM598.1     Document Type: Article

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