A near real-time satellite-based global drought climate data record

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Aghakouchak, Amir ^a   Nakhjiri, Navid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; precipitation; satellite data

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; GAGES; LASERS; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SATELLITES;

CONTINUOUS PRECIPITATION; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITES; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DROUGHT STRESS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REAL TIME; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; HORN OF AFRICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871847687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044037     Document Type: Article

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