Climatology-calibrated precipitation analysis at fine scales: Statistical adjustment of stage IV toward CPC gauge-based analysis

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2542-2557

  Hou, Dingchen ^a   Charles, Mike ^a,b   Luo, Yan ^a,c   Toth, Zoltan ^a   Zhu, Yuejian ^a   Krzysztofowicz, Roman ^d   Lin, Ying ^a   Xie, Pingping ^a   Seo, Dong Jun ^a,e   Pena, Malaquias ^a,c   Cui, Bo ^a,c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Climatology; Hydrometeorology; North America; Rainfall; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84905706447     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-0140.1     Document Type: Article

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