A merging scheme for constructing daily precipitation analyses based on objective bias-correction and error estimation techniques

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 8671-8692

  Nie, Suping ^a   Luo, Yong ^b   Wu, Tongwen ^a   Shi, Xueli ^a   Wang, Zaizhi ^a  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A merging scheme for combining daily precipitation data; Intercomparison of dual source and multisource merged analyses; Quantitative estimate of error variances without ad hoc assumption

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERPOLATION; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA;

CHINA;

EID: 84943375107     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023347     Document Type: Article

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