Evaluation of global satellite rainfall products over Continental Europe

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 588-603

  Stampoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouiln ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Hydrologic cycle; Hydrometeorology; Orographic effects; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STORM;

EUROPE;

EID: 84864766337     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-086.1     Document Type: Article

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