Assessment and comparison of TMPA satellite precipitation products in varying climatic and topographic regimes in Morocco

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5697-5717

  Milewski, Adam ^a   Elkadiri, Racha ^b   Durham, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3B42 V7; Arid environments; Morocco; Precipitation; Remote sensing; TMPA

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GAGES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

3B42 V7; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; MOROCCO; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION; TMPA;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 84930017398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70505697     Document Type: Article

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