Understanding the dependence of satellite rainfall uncertainty on topography and climate for hydrologic model simulation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 704-718

  Gebregiorgis, Abebe S ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; precipitation; remote sensing; satellite; topography; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSIONS; GRID CELLS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; PERSIANN; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION FROM REMOTELY SENSED INFORMATION; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATIC KNOWLEDGE; TEMPORAL TRENDS; UNCERTAINTY; WINTER SEASONS;

CELLS; CLIMATOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; ERRORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871809138     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2196282     Document Type: Article

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