Rainfall estimation from TOGA radar observations during LBA field campaign

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages LBA-35-1-LBA-35-14

  Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a   Morales, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

1854 Hydrology: Precipitation (3354); 3260 Mathematical Geophysics: Inverse theory; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing; 3394 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Instruments and techniques; PR; Radar; Rainfall estimation; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

ALGORITHM; GEOPHYSICS; RADAR; RAINFALL;

AMAZON RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36448990134     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000377     Document Type: Article

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