Validating a rapid-update satellite precipitation analysis across telescoping space and time scales

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 99-108

  Turk, Francis Joseph ^a,f   Sohn, Byung Ju ^b   Oh, Hyun Jong ^b   Ebert, Elizabeth E ^c   Levizzani, Vincenzo ^d   Smith, Eric A ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUMMER; TIMESCALE;

EID: 69949141977     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-009-0037-4     Document Type: Article

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