Daily indian precipitation analysis formed from a merge of rain-gauge data with the TRMM TMPA satellite-derived rainfall estimates

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87 A, Issue , 2009, Pages 265-279

  Mitra, A K ^a   Bohra, A K ^a   Rajeevan, M N ^b   Krishnamurti, T N ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING   (India)

^b NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SAMPLING BIAS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 71549115822     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87A.265     Document Type: Article

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