Similarity and difference of the two successive V6 and V7 TRMM multisatellite precipitation analysis performance over China

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 13,060-13,074

  Chen, Sheng ^a,b   Hong, Yang ^a,b   Cao, Qing ^a,b   Gourley, Jonathan J ^c   Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^a,b   Yong, Bin ^d   Tian, Yudong ^e,f   Zhang, Zengxin ^g   Shen, Yan ^h   Hu, Junjun ^a   Hardy, Jill ^a,c  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

China; evaluation; Satellite QPE; TRMM

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CHINA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ARID REGIONS;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

CHINA;

EID: 84891276152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD019964     Document Type: Article

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