Estimating climatological bias errors for the global precipitation climatology project (GPCP)

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-99

  Adler, Robert F ^a   Gu, Guojun ^a,b   Huffman, George J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Hydrologic cycle; Precipitation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

BIAS ERROR; COLD SEASON; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; EMPIRICAL TECHNIQUES; ERROR ESTIMATES; ESTIMATED ERROR; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGHER LATITUDES; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MULTIPLE ESTIMATES; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; RELATIVE ERRORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TROPICAL LANDS; UPPER BOUND; WESTERN PACIFIC;

CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84856153392     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-052.1     Document Type: Article

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