How well can we estimate error variance of satellite precipitation data around the world?

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 154, Issue , 2015, Pages 39-59

  Gebregiorgis, Abebe S ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Precipitation rate; Satellite precipitation error variance; Season; Topography; Ungauged regions

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE; ERROR VARIANCE; PRECIPITATION RATES; SEASON; UNGAUGED REGIONS;

RAIN;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84910595306     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.11.005     Document Type: Article

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