Transfer of satellite rainfall error from gaged to ungaged locations: How realistic will it be for the Global Precipitation Mission?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Tang, Ling ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR METRICS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MISSIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDEPENDENT GROUNDS; INTERPOLATION METHOD; ORDINARY KRIGING; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; RAINFALL DATA; SATELLITE RAINFALL DATA; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION METHOD; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TRANSFER SCHEME;

INTERPOLATION; SATELLITES;

ERROR DETECTION;

DETECTION METHOD; GAUGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

EID: 67651091383     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037965     Document Type: Article

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