Retrievals for the rainfall rate over land using special sensor microwave imager data during tropical cyclones: Comparisons of scattering index, regression, and support vector regression

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1567-1578

  Wei, Chih Chiang ^a   Roan, Jinsheng ^b  

^a TOKO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTERING; SSM-I; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATERSHED;

DANSHUI BASIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 84869486522     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-0118.1     Document Type: Article

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