Inter-comparison of satellite rainfall products for representing rainfall diurnal cycle over the Nile basin

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 230-240

  Haile, Alemseged Tamiru ^a,b   Habib, Emad ^b   Elsaadani, Mohamed ^b   Rientjes, Tom ^c  

^a United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^b University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cmorph; Lake tana; Lake victoria; Nile; Rainfall diurnal cycle; Rainfall occurrence; Satellite rainfall validation; Trmm 3b42

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRMM;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; ETHIOPIA; LAKE TANA; LAKE VICTORIA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 84872765309     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.08.012     Document Type: Article

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