Cloud model-based Bayesian technique for precipitation profile retrieval from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Tassa, Alessandra ^a   Di Michele, Sabatino ^a   Mugnai, Alberto ^a   Marzano, Frank S ^b   Poiares Baptista, José Pedro V ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cloud radiation database; Precipitation retrieval; TRMM Microwave Imager

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING;

RADIATIVE PROCESSES;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0042371311     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002674     Document Type: Review

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