Comparison of PERSIANN and V7 TRMM multi-satellite precipitation analysis (TMPA) products with rain gauge data over Iran

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8156-8171

  Moazami, Saber ^a,b   Golian, Saeed ^c   Kavianpour, M Reza ^a   Hong, Yang ^b  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES;

DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITES; LINEAR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; RAINFALL ESTIMATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

RAIN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

IRAN;

EID: 84896296688     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.833360     Document Type: Article

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