Evaluation of remotely sensed precipitation and its performance for streamflow simulations in basins of the Southeast Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2577-2594

  Wang, Sheng ^a,b   Liu, Suxia ^a,b   Mo, Xingguo ^a   Peng, Bin ^c   Qiu, Jianxiu ^a   Li, Mingxin ^d   Liu, Changming ^a   Wang, Zhonggen ^a   Bauer Gottwein, Peter ^b,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CHANGJIANG WATER RESOURCES COMMISSION   (China)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hydrology; Observational techniques and algorithms; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; STREAMFLOW;

CHINA; LHASA BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84950154220     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0166.1     Document Type: Article

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