Assessing the relative performance of microwave-based satellite rain-rate retrievals using TRMM ground validation data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1069-1099

  Wolf, David B ^a,b   Fisher, Brad L ^a,b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE STUDIES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFERENT TERRAINS; FLASH-FLOOD-WARNING; FLORIDA; GLOBAL RAINFALL; GROUND BASED; GROUND VALIDATIONS; LOWER CORRELATION; MICROWAVE IMAGER; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MONTHLY SCALE; MORPHING; RAIN RATE RETRIEVAL; RAIN RATES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTERING CHANNELS; SPACE-BORNE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; STATISTICAL ARTIFACTS; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UNDERLYING SURFACE;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SSM-I;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; KWAJALEIN; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651241271     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC2127.1     Document Type: Article

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