Combining satellite microwave radiometer and radar observations to estimate atmospheric heating profiles

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6356-6376

  Grecu, Mircea ^a   Olson, William S ^a   Shie, Chung Lin ^a   L'Ecuyer, Tristan S ^b   Tao, Wei Kuo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING; BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HEAT SOURCES; HEATING PEAK; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; PRECIPITATION RADAR; PROFILE STRUCTURE; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIATIVE HEATING; SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SPACE-BORNE; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; TRAINING DATA; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

CONDENSATION; HEATING RATE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADIOSONDES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; TROPICS;

HEATING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; HEATING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

EID: 77649326338     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3020.1     Document Type: Article

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