Satellite retrievals of arctic and equatorial rain and snowfall rates using millimeter wavelengths

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3697-3707

  Surussavadee, Chinnawat ^a   Staelin, David H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU); Arctic; Microwave precipitation estimation; Precipitation; Remote sensing; Satellite; Snow

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SILT; SNOW GAGES; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ARCTIC; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; MICROWAVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; REMOTE-SENSING; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL;

RAIN GAGES;

ALGORITHM; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUDSAT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NADIR; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SNOW COVER;

EID: 70350676294     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2029093     Document Type: Article

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