Improvements of satellite-derived cyclonic rainfall over the North Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 657-669

  Klepp, Christian Philipp ^a   Bakan, Stephan ^b   Graßl, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; RAIN; STORMS;

COLD FRONTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AVHRR; DATA ASSIMILATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SSM-I;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0038691812     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0657:IOSDCR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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