Precipitation retrieval from space: An overview

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 380-389

  Prigent, Catherine ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Infrared; Passive microwave; Precipitation; Rain radar; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 77951620161     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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