Evaluation of precipitation features in high-frequency ssm/i measurements over indian land and oceanic regions

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-377

  Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Gairola, Rakesh Mohan ^b   Mishra, Anoop ^b   Varma, Atul Kumar ^b   Das, Indra Mohan Lal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature (TBs); Emission; Microwave; Polarization corrected temperature (PCT); Radiative transfer (RT); Scattering

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE (TBS); BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; EMISSION; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY SCATTERING; MEGHA-TROPIQUES; MICROWAVE DATA; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRECIPITATION AREAS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEA SURFACE AREA; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; SURFACE EFFECT; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERICS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RAIN GAGES; SCATTERING; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE;

RAIN;

EID: 67651161900     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2014254     Document Type: Article

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