Error analysis of satellite precipitation products in mountainous basins

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1778-1793

  Mei, Yiwen ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a   Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I ^b   Borga, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN; ERROR ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE;

ADIGE RIVER; ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84903902896     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0194.1     Document Type: Article

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