Assessing spatio-temporal rainfall variability in a tropical mountain area (Ethiopia) using NOAA's rainfall estimates

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 8319-8335

  Jacob, Miro ^a   Frankl, Amaury ^a   Haile, Mitiku ^b   Zwertvaegher, Ann ^a   Nyssen, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; LOSSES; RAIN GAGES;

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; VALIDATION ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NOAA SATELLITE; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84886876588     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.837230     Document Type: Article

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