Investigating the applicability of error correction ensembles of satellite rainfall products in river flow simulations

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1194-1211

  Maggioni, Viviana ^a   Vergara, Humberto J ^b   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a   Gourley, Jonathan J ^b   Hong, Yang ^c   Stampoulis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER FLOW; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAMFLOW; TRMM;

NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO BASIN; TAR BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884184498     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-074.1     Document Type: Article

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