An error model for instantaneous satellite rainfall estimates: Evaluation of BRAIN-TMI over West Africa

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 673, 2013, Pages 894-911

  Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Viltard, Nicolas ^a   Gosset, Marielle ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Conditional bias; Geostatistics; QPE; Radiometry; Rain gauge; Satellite based rain estimation; West African Monsoon

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL BIAS; GEO-STATISTICS; QPE; RAIN ESTIMATION; RAIN-GAUGE; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RAIN;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOMETER; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84879237220     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1964     Document Type: Article

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