Global precipitation retrievals using the NOAA AMSU millimeter-wave channels: Comparisons with rain gauges

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 124-135

  Surussavadee, Chinnawat ^a,b   Staelin, David H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; BARE GROUNDS; CLOUD-RESOLVING; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; INFRARED SPECTRAL; MESOSCALE MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NEAR-SURFACE; NOAA SATELLITE; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; RAIN GAUGES; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS; STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION; SURFACE CLASSIFICATION; TWO CLASSIFICATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; RAIN GAGES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

RAIN;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AVHRR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; INFRARED IMAGERY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE; STORM;

EID: 77953513727     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2262.1     Document Type: Article

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