Multisensor precipitation reanalysis

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 666-682

  Nelson, Brian R ^a   Seo, D J ^a,b   Kim, Dongsoo ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DOPPLER RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR;

EID: 77955481488     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JHM1210.1     Document Type: Article

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