Multiregional satellite precipitation products evaluation over complex terrain

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1817-1836

  Derin, Yagmur ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil ^a   Berne, Alexis ^b   Borga, Marco ^c   Boudevillain, Brice ^d   Buytaert, Wouter ^e   Chang, Che Hao ^f   Delrieu, Guy ^g   Hong, Yang ^h   Hsu, Yung Chia ⁱ   Lavado Casimiro, Waldo ^j   Manz, Bastian ^e   Moges, Semu ^k   Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I ^c   Sahlu, Dejene ^k   Salerno, Franco ^l,m   Rodríguez Sánchez, Juan Pablo ⁿ   Vergara, Humberto J ^h,o   Yilmaz, Koray K ^p  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^j Servicio Nacional de Meteorologa e Hidrologa del Peru   (Peru)

^k Addis Ababa Institute of Technology   (Ethiopia)

^l WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^m CNR   (Italy)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^o UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^p MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TERRAIN; MOUNTAIN REGION; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALPS; ANDES; BLACK SEA COAST [TURKEY]; BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; HIMALAYAS; NEPAL; NILE RIVER; TAIWAN; TURKEY;

EID: 84976875146     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0197.1     Document Type: Article

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