Rain and snowfall retrievals at high latitudes using millimeter wavelengths

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 624-627

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

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSU; CLOUDSAT; GMI; GPM; Microwave precipitation estimation; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GEOLOGY; MILLIMETER WAVES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEA ICE; SNOW;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT DATUM; AMSU; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUDSAT; NEURAL NETWORK ESTIMATORS; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; SURFACE PRECIPITATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 67649763492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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