Benchmarking high-resolution global satellite rainfall products to radar and rain-gauge rainfall estimates

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1667-1683

  Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,b   Maggioni, Viviana ^a   Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I ^a,b   Meskele, Tadesse ^c   Hossain, Faisal ^d   Papadopoulos, Anastasios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Error; Precipitation; Rainfall estimation; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; COLD SEASON; ERROR PROPERTIES; ERROR QUANTIFICATION; FALSE ALARMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION; MORPHING TECHNIQUES; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; OKLAHOMA; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RADAR PRODUCTS; RADAR RAINFALL; RAIN DETECTION; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RAINFALL ESTIMATION; RAINFALL FIELDS; REFERENCE DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE RAIN RETRIEVALS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SECOND ORDERS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; GAGES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NASA; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

RAIN;

BENCHMARKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NSCAT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955498034     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2034736     Document Type: Article

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