Comparison of TRMM 2A25 products, version 6 and version 7, with NOAA/NSSL ground radar-based national mosaic QPE

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 661-669

  Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^a,b,c   Hong, Y ^a,c   Gourley, J J ^b   Schwaller, M ^d   Petersen, W ^e   Zhang, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c National Weather Center   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Radars Radar observations; Rainfall; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TRMM; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84876724481     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-030.1     Document Type: Article

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