Evaluation of high-resolution satellite precipitation products using rain gauge observations over the Tibetan Plateau

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 837-849

  Gao, Y C ^a   Liu, M F ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CORRECTION PROCESS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GAUGE MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMID REGIONS; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MORPHING TECHNIQUES; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; PERSIANN; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION FROM REMOTELY SENSED INFORMATION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; RAIN GAUGES; REAL TIME; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WEAK DEPENDENCES;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; LASERS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURVEYING; TOPOGRAPHY;

RAIN GAGES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRMM;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84874478991     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-837-2013     Document Type: Article

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