MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25° global gridded precipitation (1979-2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 589-615

  Beck, Hylke E ^a   Van Dijk, Albert I J M ^b   Levizzani, Vincenzo ^c   Schellekens, Jaap ^d   Miralles, Diego G ^e,f   Martens, Brecht ^e   De Roo, Ad ^a  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITES;

COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

GAGES;

CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERPOLATION; LAND SURFACE; PHILOSOPHY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; STREAMFLOW;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 85011049856     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-589-2017     Document Type: Article

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