Assessing the skill of satellite-based precipitation estimates in hydrologic applications

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Pan, Ming ^a   Li, Haibin ^a   Wood, Eric ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NEAR-SURFACE; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL WEATHER; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SPATIAL SCALE; STORM SYSTEMS; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION;

ERRORS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GAGES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; RIVERS; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MODEL TEST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW; WATER RESOURCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955169667     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008290     Document Type: Article

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