An updated TRMM composite climatology of tropical rainfall and its validation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 273-284

  Wang, Jian Jian ^a   Adler, Robert F ^a   Huffman, George J ^b   Bolvin, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITING TECHNIQUES; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; MEAN PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; GAGES; OCEANOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; OPEN OCEAN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RAINFALL; TRMM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84892458067     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00331.1     Document Type: Article

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