Validation analyses after the altitude change of TRMM

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4894, Issue , 2003, Pages 83-91

  Shimizu, Shuji ^a   Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^b   Iguchi, Toshio ^b   Awaka, Jun ^c   Kozu, Toshiaki ^d   Meneghini, Robert ^e   Okamoto, Ken'Ichi ^f  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Communication Research Laboratory ^*

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Altitude increase; Precipitation Radar (PR); TRMM; Validation

Indexed keywords

ORBITS; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ALTITUDE INCREASE; CONDITIONAL RAIN; PRECIPITATION RADAR; SIMULATED RAINFALL; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; VALIDATION; VALIDATION ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

EID: 33751502936     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.466523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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