Abstract: A method of combining satellite estimates of rainfall into gridded monthly averages suitable for climatological studies is examined. Weighted averages of the satellite estimates are derived that minimize the mean squared ...

Abstract: Considerable progress has been made in recent years with using satellite data to generate maps of rain rate with grid resolutions of 1°?5° square. In parallel with these efforts, much work has been devoted to the problem ...

Abstract: Quantitative use of satellite-derived maps of monthly rainfall requires some measure of the accuracy of the satellite estimates. The rainfall estimate for a given map grid box is subject to both remote sensing error and, ...