Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1643-1664

  Reichle, Rolf H ^a   Liu, Q ^b   Koster, Randal D ^a   Draper, Clara S ^c   Mahanama, Sarith P P ^b   Partyka, Gary S ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GAGES; METEOROLOGY;

INITIAL CONDITIONS; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PRODUCTION STREAMS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SELF-CONSISTENT SURFACE;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR CORRECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; TRMM;

AFRICA;

EID: 85014041229     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0570.1     Document Type: Article

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