Evaluation of satellite rainfall estimates for drought and flood monitoring in Mozambique

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1758-1776

  Toté, Carolien ^a   Patricio, Domingos ^b   Boogaard, Hendrik ^c   van der Wijngaart, Raymond ^c   Tarnavsky, Elena ^d   Funk, Chris ^e  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INAM)   (Mozambique)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical validation; Drought; Flood; Mozambique; Pairwise comparison; Rain gauge; Rainfall; Satellite

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DROUGHT; FLOODS; FOOD SUPPLY; GAGES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS;

CATEGORICAL VALIDATION; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; METEOROLOGICAL PATTERNS; MOZAMBIQUE; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL CLIMATOLOGIES; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 84928811785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70201758     Document Type: Article

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