Spatiotemporal variability of hourly precipitation over the Eastern contiguous United States from stage IV multisensor analyses

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-21

  Kursinski, Ana L ^a   Mullen, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40349116180     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JHM856.1     Document Type: Article

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