Combined cloud-microwave radiative transfer modeling of stratiform rainfall

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1082-1104

  Bauer, Peter ^a   Khain, A ^b   Pokrovsky, A ^b   Meneghini, R ^c   Kummerow, C ^c   Marzano, F ^d   Baptista, J P V Poiares ^e  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; SIZE DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRATIFORM RAINFALL;

RAIN;

MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 0034079114     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1082:CCMRTM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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