Intercomparison of summer rainfall diurnal features between station rain gauge data and TRMM 3B42 product over central eastern China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1690-1696

  Yuan, Weihua ^a,b   Li, Jian ^c   Chen, Haoming ^c   Yu, Rucong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Rainfall diurnal differences; Station rain gauge data; Topography; TRMM 3B42

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DIURNAL RAINFALL; DIURNAL VARIATION; EASTERN CHINA; INTERCOMPARISONS; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; RAIN GAUGE DATA; SUMMER RAINFALL; TRMM 3B42; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

GAGES; LANDFORMS; RAIN GAGES; TOPOGRAPHY;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHY; TRMM;

CHINA;

EID: 84862107091     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2384     Document Type: Article

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