Separation of convective and stratiform precipitation using microwave brightness temperature

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1195-1213

  Hong, Ye ^a,b   Kummerow, Christian D ^b   Olson, William S ^c  

^a Caelum Research Corporation   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 0033402280     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<1195:SOCASP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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