Evaluation of the successive V6 and V7 TRMM multisatellite precipitation analysis over the Continental United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8174-8186

  Chen, Sheng ^a   Hong, Yang ^a   Gourley, Jonathan J ^b   Huffman, George J ^c,d   Tian, Yudong ^d,e   Cao, Qing ^a   Yong, Bin ^f   Kirstetter, Pierre Emmanuel ^a,b   Hu, Junjun ^a   Hardy, Jill ^a,b   Li, Zhe ^g   Khan, Sadiq I ^a   Xue, Xianwu ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIAL ERRORS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER RESOURCES;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRMM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896692024     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2012WR012795     Document Type: Article

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