Use of APHRODITE rain gauge-based precipitation and TRMM 3B43 products for improving asian monsoon seasonal precipitation forecasts by the superensemble method

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1062-1069

  Yatagai, Akiyo ^a,c   Krishnamurti, T N ^b   Kumar, Vinay ^b   Mishra, A K ^b   Simon, Anu ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-VALIDATION TECHNIQUE; FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY; MULTI-MODEL SUPERENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION PREDICTIONS; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GAGES; WATER RESOURCES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN GAGES;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATABASE; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MODEL VALIDATION; MONSOON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; TRMM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA;

EID: 84893185564     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00332.1     Document Type: Article

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