ABSTRACT The low density of precipitation gauges, the areas difficult access and high number missing values hinder a rapid effective hydrological monitoring. Thus, present study aims to statistically validate estimates by data Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) in relation observed Conventional Meteorological Stations (CMSs) geographic regions Brazil. statistical indicators used were: C...

We investigate a corpus of geographical distributions of 17,126 Finnish dialect words. Our goal is to automatically find sets of words characteristic to geographical regions. Though our approach is related to the problem of dividing the investigation area into linguistically (and geographically) relatively coherent dialect regions, we do not aim at constructing more or less questionable dialect...