Evaluation of the climate prediction center (CPC) morphing technique (CMORPH) rainfall product on hourly time scales over the source of the Blue Nile River

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1829-1839

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

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias; Blue Nile; CMORPH; Lake Tana; Rainfall; Satellite rainfall; Validation

Indexed keywords

BIAS; BLUE NILE; CMORPH; LAKE TANA; SATELLITE RAINFALLS; VALIDATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; ETHIOPIA; GILGEL ABAY BASIN; LAKE TANA; NILE RIVER;

EID: 84878658323     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9330     Document Type: Article

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