Trmm 2A12 land precipitation product - Status and future plans

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87 A, Issue , 2009, Pages 237-253

  Wang, Nai Yu ^a   Liu, Chuntao ^b   Ferraro, Ralph ^c   Wolff, Dave ^d   Zipser, Ed ^b   Kummerow, Chris ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SEMIARID REGION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 71549145001     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87A.237     Document Type: Article

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