Status of satellite precipitation retrievals

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1109-1116

  Kidd, C ^a   Levizzani, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SYSTEMS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SATELLITE SYSTEM;

DATA HANDLING; ESTIMATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES;

RAIN;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 79953812002     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1109-2011     Document Type: Article

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