Combining TRMM and surface observations of precipitation: Technique and validation over South America

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 885-894

  Rozante, José Roberto ^a   Moreira, Demerval Soares ^a   de Goncalves, Luis Gustavo G ^b,c   Vila, Daniel A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Precipitation; Satellite observations; South America; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

AREAL AVERAGES; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT; CROSS VALIDATION; EVALUATION PROCESS; GRID-BOX; HIGH DENSITY; INTERPOLATION METHOD; LARGE-SCALE DATASETS; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; POINT MEASUREMENT; REGULAR GRIDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL SCALE; SUB-SAMPLING; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; WINTER SEASONS;

RAIN; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN GAGES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77955585620     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222325.1     Document Type: Article

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