Evaluation of precipitation data sets along the Himalayan front

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Andermann, C ^a,b   Bonnet, S ^a   Gloaguen, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate; Himalaya; Nepal; orography; precipitation; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; GAGES; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; PROCESS CONTROL; RATING; REMOTE SENSING; RAIN GAGES;

CLIMATE; CLIMATIC PROCESS; DATA SETS; GROUND BASED; HIGH QUALITY; HIMALAYAS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MONSOON SEASON; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; NEPAL; OROGENIC BELTS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAUGE DATA; SPATIAL CHANGES; SPATIAL PERFORMANCE; SURFACE PROCESS; TEMPORAL QUALITY; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EID: 79961228407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003513     Document Type: Article

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