Precipitation and latent heating distributions from satellite passive microwave radiometry. Part II: Evaluation of estimates using independent data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 721-739

  Yang, Song ^a,c   Olson, William S ^b   Wang, Jian Jian ^b   Bell, Thomas L ^c   Smith, Eric A ^c   Kummerow, Christian D ^d  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE PROPORTION; SURFACE RAIN RATE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM) MICROWAVE IMAGER;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DOPPLER RADAR; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

EID: 33745848150     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2370.1     Document Type: Article

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