Systematic and random error components in satellite precipitation data sets

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Aghakouchak, Amir ^a   Mehran, Ali ^a   Norouzi, Hamidreza ^b   Behrangi, Ali ^c  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BIAS REDUCTION; BIAS REMOVAL; ERROR COMPONENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; RAIN RATES; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SIMILAR PATTERN; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; UNCERTAINTY MODELS;

SATELLITES;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861128881     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051592     Document Type: Article

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