A first approach to global runoff simulation using satellite rainfall estimation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Hong, Yang ^a,b,c   Adler, Robert F ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^d   Curtis, Scott ^e   Huffman, George J ^a,f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^e EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; RIVERS; SATELLITES;

ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT; PRECIPITATION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE RAINFALL;

RUNOFF;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SATELLITES;

CATCHMENT; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 34848927837     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005739     Document Type: Article

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