Estimating actual rainfall from satellite rainfall products

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 481-488

  Yan, Jun ^a   Gebremichael, Mekonnen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional density; Satellite rainfall; Semiparametric; Smooth function; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL DENSITY; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASINS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATIONS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELS; SEMIPARAMETRIC; SMOOTH FUNCTION; TWO COMPONENTS; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY MEASURES;

ERRORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

SATELLITES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349093477     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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