Aphrodite constructing a long-term daily gridded precipitation dataset for Asia based on a dense network of rain gauges

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1401-1415

  Yatagai, Akiyo ^a,e   Kamiguchi, Kenji ^b   Arakawa, Osamu ^b   Hamada, Atsushi ^c   Yasutomi, Natsuko ^d   Kitoh, Akio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DENSE NETWORK; EXTREME EVENTS; OBSERVATION DATA; OUTREACH PROGRAMS; RAIN GAUGES;

METEOROLOGY;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84862984556     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00122.1     Document Type: Article

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