Investigating the similarity of satellite rainfall error metrics as a function of Köppen climate classification

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 104-105, Issue , 2012, Pages 182-192

  Tang, Ling ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Precipitation; Satellite; Similarity TRMM and GPM; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DATA PRODUCTS; ERROR METRICS; GAUGE NETWORK; GRID-BOX; GROUND VALIDATIONS; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SIMILARITY TRMM AND GPM; SPACE-BORNE; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; NASA; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ERROR DETECTION;

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84655168092     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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