Small-scale horizontal rain-rate variability observed by satellite

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2722-2733

  Varma, Atul K ^a,b   Liu, Guosheng ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; RAIN-RATE VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION;

RAIN;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33750481902     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3185.1     Document Type: Article

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