A methodological approach for spatial downscaling of TRMM precipitation data in North China

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 144-169

  Zheng, Xiao ^a,b,c,d   Zhu, Jiaojun ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory for Management of Non commercial Forests   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; RAIN GAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TRMM PRECIPITATION DATUM;

RAIN;

CORRECTION; DOWNSCALING; NDVI; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRMM;

CHINA;

EID: 84920946030     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.995275     Document Type: Article

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