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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH,
VOL. 92, NO. D8,
PP. 9567-9570, 1987
doi:10.1029/JD092iD08p09567
Sampling Errors in Satellite Estimates of Tropical Rain
Pixel Analysis, Silver Spring, Maryland
Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
The GATE rainfall data set is used in a statistical study to estimate the sampling errors that might be expected for the type of snapshot sampling that a low earth-orbiting satellite makes. For averages over the entire 400-km square and for the duration of several weeks we find strong evidence that sampling errors less than 10% can be expected in contributions from each of four rain rate categories which individually account for about one quarter of the total rain.
Received 2 July 1986; accepted 18 March 1987; .
Citation: (1987), Sampling Errors in Satellite Estimates of Tropical Rain, J. Geophys. Res., 92(D8), 9567–9570, doi:10.1029/JD092iD08p09567.
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