Opportunities and challenges for evaluating precipitation estimates during GPM mission

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 551-557

  Amitai, Eyal ^a,b   Llort, Xavier ^c   Sempere Torres, Daniel ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 37849187056     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0157     Document Type: Article

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