A simplified scheme for obtaining precipitation and vertical hydrometeor profiles from passive microwave sensors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1213-1232

  Kummerow, Christian ^a,c   Oison, William S ^a,b   Giglio, Louis ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE PRECIPITATION RADIOMETER; BAYESIAN APPROACH; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; VERTICAL HYDROMETER PROFILES;

SENSORS;

EID: 0030242045     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536538     Document Type: Article

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