Performance assessment of the successive Version 6 and Version 7 TMPA products over the climate-transitional zone in the southern Great Plains, USA

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 513, Issue , 2014, Pages 446-456

  Qiao, Lei ^a,b   Hong, Yong ^a,e   Chen, Sheng ^a   Zou, Chris B ^b   Gourley, Jonathan J ^c   Yong, Bin ^d  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Global precipitation measurement; Quantitative precipitation estimation; TMPA; TRMM; Upper washita basin; Verdigris river basin

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RAIN GAGES; WATERSHEDS;

GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RIVER BASINS; TMPA; TRMM; UPPER WASHITA BASIN;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RIVER BASIN; SEASONALITY; TRANSITION ZONE; TRMM;

GREAT PLAINS; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; VERDIGRIS BASIN; WASHITA BASIN;

EID: 84899059870     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.040     Document Type: Article

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