An investigation of the error budget of tropical rainfall accumulation derived from merged passive microwave and infrared satellite measurements

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 673, 2013, Pages 879-893

  Chambon, Philippe ^a   Jobard, Isabelle ^a   Roca, Rémy ^b   Viltard, Nicolas ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Error budget; Megha Tropiques; Precipitation; Satellite

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; ALGORITHMIC ERRORS; ERROR BUDGETS; INFRARED SATELLITES; MEGHA-TROPIQUES; SATELLITE RAINFALL ESTIMATION; SATELLITE RAINFALLS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ALGORITHMS; BUDGET CONTROL; CALIBRATION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

RAIN;

ACCUMULATION; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 84879218119     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1907     Document Type: Article

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