Very high resolution precipitation climatologies from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission precipitation radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Nesbitt, Stephen W ^a   Anders, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAGES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

ERROR MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIMALAYAS; NEAR-SURFACE; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RAIN RATES; SAMPLING ERRORS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; TIGHT COUPLING; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION PRECIPITATION RADARS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; TOPOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70350025190     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038026     Document Type: Article

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