Site-specific precipitation estimate from TRMM data using bilinear weighted interpolation technique: An example from Kuwait

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1320-1328

  ud din, S ^a   Al Dousari, A ^a   Ramdan, A ^a   Al Ghadban, A ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Bilinear weighted interpolation; Kuwait; TRMM

Indexed keywords

DATA; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SITE SELECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 43849090225     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Anon, 2005. Tropical Rainfall Mission Office-Introduction. 〈http://lba.cptec.inpe.br/lba/eng/trmm/doctrmmi.html〉.
2. Arnold D.N., Boffi D., and Falk R.S. Approximation by quadrilateral finite element. Mathematics of Computation 71 (2002) 909-922
3. Bell T.L., and Kundu P.K. Comparing satellite rainfall estimates with rain gauge data: optimal strategies suggested by spectral model. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 D3 (2003) (4121, pp. ACL 7-1-15)
4. Bowman K.P. Comparison of TRMM precipitation retrievals with rain gauge data from ocean buoys. Journal of Climate 18 (2005) 178-190
5. Brito A.E., Chan S.H., and Cabrera S.D. SAR image superresolution via 2-D adaptive extrapolation. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing 14 (2003) 83-104
6. Foley T.A. Weighted bicubic spline interpolation to rapidly varying data. ACM Transactions on Graphics 6 1 (1987) 1-18
7. Gribbon, K.T., Bailey, D.G., 2004. A novel approach to real-time bi-linear interpolation. In: Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications, pp. 126.
8. Habib E., Krajewski W.F., and Nespor V. Numerical simulation studies of rain gauge data correction due to wind effect. Journal of Geophysical Research 104 (1999) 19,723-19,734
9. Krajewski W.F., Ciach G.J., McCollum J.R., and Bacotiu C. Initial validation of global precipitation climatology project monthly rainfall over United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology 39 (2000) 1071-1086
10. Kuhel H., and Sacchi M.D. Least squares wave equation migration for AVP/AVA inversion. Geophysics 68 (2003) 262-273
11. Nespor V., and Sevruk B. Estimation of wind induced error of rainfall gauge measurements using a numerical simulation. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 16 (1999) 450-464
12. Robertson F.R., Fitzjarrald D.E., and Kummerow C.D. Effect of uncertainty in TRMM precipitation radar path integrated attenuation on interannual variations of tropical oceanic rainfall. Geophysical Research Letters 30 4 (2003) 10.1029/2002GL016416
13. Saif ud din, Al Dousari A., and Al Ghadban A.N. Sustainable freshwater resources management in northern Kuwait-a remote sensing view from Raudatain Basin. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 9 (2007) 21-31
14. Serra Y.L., A'Hearn P., Freitag H.P., and McPhaden M.J. ATLAS self siphoning rain gauge error estimates. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 18 (2001) 1989-2002