High-resolution monthly rainfall database for Ethiopia: Homogenization, reconstruction, and gridding

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8422-8443

  Tsidu, G Mengistu ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate classification regimes; Climate records; Climate variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION/REGIMES; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC RESEARCH; DATA SETS; DRY AND WET; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; GLOBAL DATASETS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GRIDDING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMPUTATION OF MISSING VALUES; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERANNUAL RAINFALL; INTERCOMPARISONS; MULTICHANNEL SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ORDINARY KRIGING; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL REGIME; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL WARMING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RAIN GAGES;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; GLOBAL WARMING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INHOMOGENEITY; KRIGING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DATA; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84871870424     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00027.1     Document Type: Article

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