Evaluation of GPM Day-1 IMERG and TMPA Version-7 legacy products over Mainland China at multiple spatiotemporal scales

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 533, Issue , 2016, Pages 152-167

  Tang, Guoqiang ^a   Ma, Yingzhao ^a   Long, Di ^a   Zhong, Lingzhi ^b   Hong, Yang ^a,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

GPM; IMERG; Precipitation; TRMM

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; GPM; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; IMERG; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ALGORITHM; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

CHINA;

EID: 84951201822     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.008     Document Type: Article

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