Continental passive microwave-based rainfall estimation algorithm: Application to the Amazon Basin

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1962-1981

  Biscaro, Thiago S ^a   Morales, Carlos A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DOPPLER RADAR; INFORMATION SERVICES; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN GAGES; SECURITY OF DATA;

AMAZON BASINS; AMAZONIA; AREA OF INTERESTS; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; CUMULATIVE RAINFALLS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; FIELD CAMPAIGNS; GODDARD PROFILING ALGORITHMS; GROUND TRUTHS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENTS; MEAN ERRORS; OBSERVED SYSTEMS; OTHER ALGORITHMS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PRECIPITATION RADARS; RAIN RETRIEVALS; RAINFALL DATUMS; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTIONS; RAINFALL ESTIMATIONS; RAINFALL RATES; SCATTERING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL ALGORITHMS; TRMM SATELLITES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; TYPE SYSTEMS; WIND FLOWS; WIND REGIMES;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DOPPLER RADAR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; POLARIZATION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 57649148639     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1744.1     Document Type: Article

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