Sparse regularization for precipitation downscaling

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ebtehaj, A M ^a,b   Foufoula Georgiou, E ^a   Lerman, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

DOPPLER WEATHER RADARS; DOWN-SCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GROUND BASED; GROUND VALIDATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; ILL POSED PROBLEM; ILL-POSED INVERSE PROBLEM; NONLINEAR ESTIMATOR; RAINFALL DOWNSCALING; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SIMULATED RAINFALL; STOCHASTIC FRAMEWORK; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DOWNSCALING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; TRMM;

EID: 84860308040     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017057     Document Type: Article

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