LMODEL: A satellite precipitation methodology using cloud development modeling. Part I: Algorithm construction and calibration

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1081-1095

  Bellerby, Tim ^a   Hsu, Kuo Lin ^b   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CLOUD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INFRARED IMAGERY; KALMAN FILTER; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 77952658624     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1091.1     Document Type: Article

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