An assessment of the first- and second-generation navy operational precipitation retrieval algorithms

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1558-1575

  Berg, Wesley ^a   Olson, William ^b   Ferraro, Ralph ^c   Goodman, Steven J ^d   LaFontaine, Frank J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE SENSING; SSM/I;

EID: 0031698024     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<1558:AAOTFA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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