Performance evaluation of MPE rainfall product at hourly and daily temporal resolution within a Hydro-Estimator pixel

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 478-487

  Rojas González, Alejandra M ^a   Harmsen, Eric W ^a   Pol, Sandra Cruz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Mean field bias; Multisensor Precipitation Estimation; NEXRAD products; Rainfall variability

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; GOES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 70349634175     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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