Observer bias in daily precipitation measurements at United States Cooperative Network Stations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 899-912

  Daly, Christopher ^a   Gibson, Wayne P ^a   Taylor, George H ^a   Doggett, Matthew K ^a   Smith, Joseph I ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; STOCHASTIC WEATHER SIMULATION MODEL;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 35348896163     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-6-899     Document Type: Article

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