Intercomparison of microwave radiative transfer models for precipitating clouds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 541-549

  Smith, Eric A ^a   Bauer, Peter ^b   Marzano, Frank S ^c   Kummerow, Christian D ^d   McKague, Darren ^e   Mugnai, Alberto ^f   Panegrossi, Giulia ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiative transfer; Model intercomparison; Precipitation retrieval

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RAIN; SCATTERING; SURFACE REACTIONS;

MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0036508264     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.1000314     Document Type: Article

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