Evaluation of global precipitation data sets over the Iberian Peninsula

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Belo Pereira, Margarida ^a   Dutra, Emanuel ^b,c   Viterbo, Pedro ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GAGES; INTERPOLATION; QUALITY CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA SETS; DENSE NETWORK; DROUGHT DETECTION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; IBERIAN PENINSULA; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MAINLAND PORTUGAL; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; ORDINARY KRIGING; PORTUGAL; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAIN GAUGES;

RAIN;

ANNUAL CYCLE; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

EID: 80054830149     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015481     Document Type: Article

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