A new satellite-based monthly precipitation downscaling algorithm with non-stationary relationship between precipitation and land surface characteristics

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 119-140

  Xu, Shiguang ^a   Wu, Chaoyang ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Gonsamo, Alemu ^b   Shen, Yan ^c   Niu, Zheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Digital Elevation Model; Downscaling; Geographically weighted regression; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; GAGES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURVEYING; VEGETATION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DOWN-SCALING; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DOWNSCALING; LAND SURFACE; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRMM;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84924362399     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.024     Document Type: Article

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