The effect of storm life cycle on satellite rainfall estimation error

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 769-777

  Tadesse, Alemu ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHMIC STRUCTURE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLOUD TYPES; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; MATURITY STAGES; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PERSIANN; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION FROM REMOTELY SENSED INFORMATION; RADAR RAINFALL; RAIN ESTIMATION; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN RETRIEVAL; REAL TIME; SATELLITE RAIN RETRIEVALS; SATELLITE RAINFALL ESTIMATION; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;

ALGORITHMS; ERROR STATISTICS; ESTIMATION; GAGES; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THUNDERSTORMS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; STORM; STORM TRACK; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 70349173547     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1129.1     Document Type: Article

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