An evaluation of over-land rain rate estimates by the gsmap and gprof algorithms: The role of lower-frequency channels

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87 A, Issue , 2009, Pages 183-202

  Seto, Shinta ^a   Kubota, Takuji ^b   Iguchi, Toshio ^c   Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^c   Oki, Taikan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 71549160399     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87a.183     Document Type: Article

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