Use of a dense rain-gauge network over india for improving blended TRMM products and downscaled weather models

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87 A, Issue , 2009, Pages 393-412

  Krishnamurti, T N ^a   Mishra, A K ^a   Simon, Anu ^a   Yatagai, Akiyo ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 71549134363     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87A.393     Document Type: Article

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