A physical-statistical approach to match passive microwave retrieval of rainfall to Mediterranean climatology

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2271-2284

  Pulvirenti, Luca ^a   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a   Marzano, Frank Silvio ^b   Castracane, Paolo ^a   D'Auria, Giovanni ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric remote sensing; Clouds and precipitation; Microwave radiative transfer; Spaceborne microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPACEBORNE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036821970     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803625     Document Type: Article

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