The use of TRMM 3B42 product for drought monitoring in Mexico

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  De Jesús, Aurea ^a,b   Breña Naranjo, Jose Agustín ^a   Pedrozo Acuña, Adrián ^a   Yamanaka, Victor Hugo Alcocer ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Programa de Doctorado de la Facultad de Ingeniería Civil Cd Universitaria   (Mexico)

^c Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales Mexico   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Drought; Mexico; Rainfall; SPI; TRMM

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING; ME-XICO; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES;

RAIN GAGES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; TRMM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84984650166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8080325     Document Type: Article

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