GRACE and AMSR-E-based estimates of winter season solid precipitation accumulation in the Arctic drainage region

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Seo, Ki Weon ^a   Ryu, Dongryeol ^b   Kim, Baek Min ^a   Waliser, Duane E ^c   Tian, Baijun ^c   Eom, Jooyoung ^d  

^a Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SNOW; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; GRAVITY CHANGES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH LATITUDES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; IN-SITU; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; MEASUREMENT BIAS; MODEL SIMULATION; NCEP/NCAR; NEW SATELLITES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; PRECIPITATION GAUGES; REANALYSIS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOLID PRECIPITATION; SPRING DISCHARGES; WATER BUDGET; WINTER SEASONS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

AMSR-E; BIOACCUMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DRAINAGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LATITUDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 78149306926     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013504     Document Type: Article

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