The university of Birmingham global rainfall algorithms

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 28, Issue , 2007, Pages 255-267

  Kidd, Chris ^a   Tapiador, Francisco J ^a   Sanderson, Victoria ^a   Kniveton, Dominic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geostationary Satellite; Infrared Data; Passive Microwave; Radar Data; Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891458418     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6_20     Document Type: Chapter

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