Global millimeter-wave precipitation retrievals trained with a cloud-resolving numerical weather prediction model, part II: Performance evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-118

  Surussavadee, Chinnawat ^a,b,c   Staelin, David H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR E); Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU); Microwave precipitation estimation; Microwave radiative transfer; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; MICROWAVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ALGORITHMS; EARTH SCIENCES; ERROR DETECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 37249072865     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.908299     Document Type: Article

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