Satellite sampling and retrieval errors in regional monthly rain estimates from TMI, AMSR-E, SSM/I, AMSU-B, and the TRMM PR

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 994-1023

  Fisher, Brad ^a,b   Wolff, David B ^a,b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MICROWAVE; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; ERROR BUDGETS; ERROR COMPONENTS; ERROR DECOMPOSITION; FLORIDA; GODDARD PROFILING; GROUND BASED; MELBOURNE; MONTHLY SCALE; ORBITING SATELLITES; RAIN RATES; RAIN RETRIEVAL; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SAMPLING ERRORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPACE-BORNE; STATISTICAL AVERAGING; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; STATISTICAL NOISE; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; WEATHER RADARS;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVE SENSORS; RAIN GAGES; SAMPLING; SATELLITES; STATISTICS;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 79959617867     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2487.1     Document Type: Article

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