Use of numerical forecasts for improving TMI rain retrievals over the mountainous area in Korea

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1995-2007

  Kwon, Eun Han ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^a   Chang, Dong Eon ^b   Ahn, Myoung Hwan ^b   Yang, Song ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; TEMPERATURE; VAPORS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COMPLEX TERRAINS; CORRECTION METHODS; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; MESOSCALE MODEL SIMULATIONS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MOISTURE CONVERGENCES; MOUNTAINOUS AREAS; NUMERICAL FORECASTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OROGRAPHIC INFLUENCES; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN RETRIEVALS; SATELLITE RAIN RETRIEVALS; SURFACE BOUNDARY LAYERS; TRAINING DATASET; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VAPOR FLUXES; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; TERRAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 57649187541     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1857.1     Document Type: Article

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