Capabilities of satellite precipitation datasets to estimate heavy precipitation rates at different temporal accumulations

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2262-2270

  Mehran, Ali ^a   Aghakouchak, Amir ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy rain rate; Precipitation; Satellite

Indexed keywords

HEAVY RAINS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION FROM REMOTELY SENSED INFORMATION; PRECIPITATION THRESHOLD; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SATELLITES;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SET; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

EID: 84892431210     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9779     Document Type: Article

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