Dry/wet conditions monitoring based on TRMM rainfall data and its reliability validation over poyang lake basin, China

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1848-1864

  Li, Xianghu ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Ye, Xuchun ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dry wet monitoring; Poyang lake basin; SPI; TRMM; Z index

Indexed keywords

GAGES; RAIN; WATER RESOURCES;

POYANG LAKE BASINS; REGIONAL WATER RESOURCES; SPI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; Z INDICES;

RAIN GAGES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG BASIN;

EID: 84888772195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w5041848     Document Type: Article

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