Real-time correction of ERA-Interim monthly rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3750-3755

  Di Giuseppe, Francesca ^a   Molteni, Franco ^a   Dutra, Emanuel ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

drought; ERA Interim; precipitation correction

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; DROUGHT MONITORING; ERA INTERIMS; PRECIPITATION CORRECTION; REAL-TIME CORRECTIONS; REMOTE OBSERVATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

DROUGHT;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; MONITORING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880202862     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50670     Document Type: Article

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