Summer precipitation frequency, intensity, and diurnal cycle over China: A comparison of satellite data with rain gauge observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3997-4010

  Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Yu, Rucong ^a   Chen, Haoming ^a   Dai, Aiguo ^b   Pan, Yang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; DIURNAL CYCLING; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; EASTERN CHINA; MEAN PRECIPITATION; NORTHEASTERN CHINA; PATTERN CORRELATION; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION FROM REMOTELY SENSED INFORMATION; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL FREQUENCIES; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SPATIAL PATTERNING; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION; VARIATIONS OF; YANGTZE RIVER;

RAIN;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CORRELATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SUMMER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE VALLEY;

EID: 53649095046     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2028.1     Document Type: Article

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