Assessing the performance of satellite-based precipitation products and its dependence on topography over Poyang Lake basin

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 713-729

  Li, Xianghu ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Xu, Chong Yu ^b,c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TOPOGRAPHY; TRMM;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG BASIN;

EID: 84894992095     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0917-x     Document Type: Article

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