Copula-based modeling of TMI brightness temperature with rainfall type

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4832-4845

  Indu, J ^a   Kumar, D Nagesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Copula; quantile regression; river basin; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NOISE ABATEMENT; RAIN GAGES; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COPULA; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; QUANTILE REGRESSION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RIVER BASINS; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; HYDROMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR IMAGERY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RAINFALL; TRMM;

EID: 84896389641     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2285225     Document Type: Article

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