Bayesian algorithm for microwave-based precipitation retrieval: Description and application to TMI measurements over ocean

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 778-791

  Di Michele, Sabatino ^a   Tassa, Alessandra ^b   Mugnai, Alberto ^b   Marzano, Frank Silvio ^c   Bauer, Peter ^a   Baptista, José Pedro V Poiares ^d  

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

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d Europ Space Agy Space Technol C   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric remote sensing; Precipitation retrieval; Spaceborne microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; OCEAN ENGINEERING; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; SPACEBORNE MIVCROWAVE RADIOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 16444369908     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.844726     Document Type: Article

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