The TRMM precipitation radar's view of shallow, isolated rain

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1519-1524

  Schumacher, Courtney ^a   Houze Jr , Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN;

CONVECTIVE-STRATIFORM SEPARATION;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0038218860     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2003)042<1519:TTPRVO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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