A maximum entropy analysis of global monthly series of rainfall from merged satellite data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1113-1121

  Tapiador, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; STATISTICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

DATABASE; ENTROPY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 33947433537     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600740731     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Arkin, P. A. (1979) The relationship between fractional coverage of high cloud and rainfall accumulations during GATE over the B-scale array. Monthly Weather Reviews, 107, pp. 1382-1387.
2. Burg, J. P. (1975) Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis. PhD thesis, Stanford University, USA.
3. Ferraro, R. R. (1997) Special Sensor Microwave Imager derived global rainfall estimates for climatological applications. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, pp. 16715-16735.
4. Ghil, M., Allen, M. R., Dettinger, M. D., Ide, K., Kondrashov, D., Mann, M. E., Robertson, A. W., Saunder, A., Tian, Y., Varadi, F. and Yiou, P. (2001) Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series. Reviews of Geophysics, 40, p. 1.
5. Grody, N. C. (1991) Classification of snow cover and precipitation using the Special Sensor Microwave Imager. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, pp. 7423-7435.
6. (1983) Nonlinear Methods of Spectral Analysis, Springer-Verlag, New York
7. Huffman, G. J., Adler, R. F., Morrissey, M. M., Bolvin, D. T., Curtis, S., Joyce, R., McGavock, B. and Susskind, J. (2001) Global precipitation at one-degree daily resolution from multisatellite observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2, pp. 36-50.
8. Kalnay, E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., Collins, W., Deaven, D., Gandin, L., Iredell, M., Saha, S., White, G., Woollen, J., Zhu, Y., Leetmaa, A., Reynolds, R., Chelliah, W., Ebisuzaki, W., Higgins, W., Janowiak, J., Mo, K. C., Ropelewski, C., Wang, J., Jenne, R. and Joseph, D. (1996) The NCEP/NCAR 40-year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77, pp. 437-472.
9. Kharin, V. V. and Zwiers, F. W. (2000) Changes in the extremes in an ensemble of transient climate simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM. Journal of Climate, 13, pp. 3760-3780.
10. Kidd, C. (2001) Satellite rainfall climatology: A review. International Journal of Climatology, 21, pp. 1041-1066.
11. Kummerow, C. and Giglio, L. (1995) A method for combining passive microwave and infrared rainfall observations. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 12, pp. 33-45.
12. Kummerow, C., Simpson, J., Thiele, O., Barnes, W., Chang, A. T. C., Stocker, E., Adler, R. F., Hou, A., Kakar, R., Wentz, F., Ashcroft, P., Kozu, T., Hong, Y., Okamoto, K., Iguchi, T., Kuroiwa, H., Im, E., Haddad, Z., Huffman, G., Ferrier, B., Olson, W. S., Zipser, E., Smith, E. A., Wilheit, T. T., North, G., Krishnamurti, T. and Nakamura, K. (2000) The status of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) after two years in orbit. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, pp. 1965-1982.
13. Penland, C., Ghil, M. and Weickmann, K. (1991) Adaptive filtering and maximum entropy spectra with application to changes in atmospheric angular momentum. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, pp. 22659-22671.
14. Richards, F. and Arkin, P. A. (1981) On the relationship between satellite-observed cloud cover and precipitation. Monthly Weather Reviews, 109, pp. 1081-1093.
15. Schmidt, R. O. (1986) Multiple emitter location and signal parameter estimation. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 34, pp. 281-290.
16. Skilling, J. (1988) Maximum entropy spectroscopy-DIMES and MESA. Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering,. Fundamental Theories of Physics, 2, pp. 127-145.
17. Skilling, J. and Bryan, R. K. (1984) Astrophysical Journal, 211, pp. 111-124.
18. Spencer, R. W. (1993) Global oceanic precipitation from the MSU during 1979-91 and comparisons to other climatologies. Journal of Climate, 6, pp. 1301-1326.
19. Vicente, G., Scofield, R. A. and Menzel, W. P. (1998) The operational GOES infrared rainfall estimation technique. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79, pp. 1883-1898.
20. Weng, F., Ferraro, R. and Grody, N. (1994) Global precipitation evaluation using Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F10 and F11 Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, pp. 25535-25551.
21. Wilheit, T. J., Chang, T. C. and Chiu, L. S. (1991) Retrieval of the monthly rainfall indices from microwave radiometric measurements using probability distribution functions. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 8, pp. 118-136.
22. Wu, N. (1997) The Maximum Entropy Method
23. Yin, X., Gruber, A. and Arkin, P. (2004) Comparison of the GPCP and CMAP merged gauge-satellite monthly precipitation products for the period 1979-2001. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 5, pp. 1207-1222.
24. Xie, P. and Arkin, P. A. (1997) Global precipitation: A 17-year monthly analysis based on gauge observations, satellite estimates, and numerical model outputs. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, pp. 2539-2558.