Validation and applications of a realtime global precipitation analysis

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 705-707

  Turk, F Joseph ^a   Ebert, Elizabeth E ^a   Oh, Hyun Jong ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED DETECTORS; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SENSORS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; INFRARED GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LOW EARTH ORBIT; MICROWAVE BASED SENSORS; MICROWAVE SOUNDER; NOWCASTING OPERATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION ANALYSIS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036028199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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