On classifying rain types using satellite microwave observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Varma, Atul Kumar ^a   Liu, Guosheng ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; PIXELS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; INHOMOGENEITIES; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PIXEL SIZE; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN RATES; RAIN TYPE; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SMALL SIZE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INHOMOGENEITY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NONLINEARITY; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOMETER; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATIFORM CLOUD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 77951027911     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009jd012058     Document Type: Article

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