Assessment of high-resolution satellite-based rainfall estimates over the mediterranean during heavy precipitation events

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1500-1514

  Stampoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a   Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

FRANCE; ITALY;

EID: 84885903256     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-0167.1     Document Type: Article

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