Quantifying precipitation uncertainty for land data assimilation applications

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3276-3299

  Alemohammad, Seyed Hamed ^a   McLaughlin, Dennis B ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Error analysis; Microwave observations; Precipitation; Rainfall; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CHARACTERIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN METHODS; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; ENSEMBLE BASED DATA ASSIMILATION; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; UNCERTAINTY CHARACTERIZATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938866425     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00337.1     Document Type: Article

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