So, how much of the Earth's surface is covered by rain gauges?

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 69-78

  Kidd, Chris ^a,b   Becker, Andreas ^c   Huffman, George J ^b   Muller, Catherine L ^d,e   Joe, Paul ^f   Skofronick Jackson, Gail ^b   Kirschbaum, Dalia B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d Royal Meteorological Society   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORIFICES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SPORTS;

EARTH'S SURFACE; HIGH-QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; NEAR REAL-TIME DATUM; ORIFICE AREA; POINT LOCATION; RAIN GAUGES; SURFACE AREA;

GAGES;

EID: 85011711379     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00283.1     Document Type: Article

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