Improving the global precipitation record: GPCP Version 2.1

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Huffman, George J ^a,b,d   Adler, Robert F ^a,c,d   Bolvin, David T ^a,b,d   Gu, Guojun ^a,c,d  

^a Global Precipitation Climatology Project   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAGES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SETS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; KEY INPUT; TOTAL VALUES;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY);

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; GLOBAL OCEAN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE; THRESHOLD;

EID: 71949086316     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040000     Document Type: Article

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