Impact of uncertainty in the drop size distribution on oceanic rainfall retrievals from passive microwave observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3160-3164

  Wilheit, Thomas T ^a   Chandrasekar, V ^b   Li, Wanyu ^c,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c ASML US Inc   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar; Radiometry; Rain

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; DATA SETS; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RAIN RATE RETRIEVAL; RAIN RATES; SURFACE REFERENCE TECHNIQUES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

DROPS; PIXELS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

EID: 51549109217     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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