Global precipitation measurement: Methods, datasets and applications

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 104-105, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-97

  Tapiador, Francisco J ^a   Turk, F J ^b   Petersen, Walt ^c   Hou, Arthur Y ^c   García Ortega, Eduardo ^d   Machado, Luiz A T ^e   Angelis, Carlos F ^f   Salio, Paola ^g   Kidd, Chris ^c,h   Huffman, George J ^c,i   de Castro, Manuel ^a  

^a UCL M   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^f Technology and Innovation   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

ⁱ SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Global Climate Models (GCM); Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission; Precipitation Regional Climate Models (RCM); Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE)

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; GROUND DATA; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84655174908     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.10.021     Document Type: Review

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