Comparison of TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA)-3B43 version 6 and 7 products with rain gauge data from ocean buoys

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 677-685

  Prakash, Satya ^a   Mahesh, C ^a   Gairola, R M ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION REGIMES; RAIN GAUGE DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

BUOYS; GAGES; LASERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN;

RAIN GAGES;

BUOY SYSTEM; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPEN OCEAN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; TRMM; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 84876483128     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2013.783248     Document Type: Article

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