Transfer of satellite rainfall uncertainty from gauged to ungauged regions at regional and seasonal time scales

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1263-1274

  Tang, Ling ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a   Huffman, George J ^b  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast verification; Forecasting; Interpolation schemes; Rainfall; Satellite observation

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651457146     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JHM1296.1     Document Type: Article

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