Comparison of rainfall estimations by TRMM 3B42, MPEG and CFSR with ground-observed data for the Lake Tana basin in Ethiopia

Planning for drought relief and floods in developing countries is greatly hampered by the lack of a sufficiently dense network of weather stations measuring precipitation. In this paper, we test the utility of three satellite products to augment the ground-based precipitation measurement to provide...

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Main Authors: A. W. Worqlul, B. Maathuis, A. A. Adem, S. S. Demissie, S. Langan, T. S. Steenhuis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-12-01
Series:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/4871/2014/hess-18-4871-2014.pdf