Status of the TRMM 2A12 land precipitation algorithm

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1343-1354

  Gopalan, Kaushik ^a   Wang, Nai Yu ^a   Ferraro, Ralph ^a   Liu, Chuntao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CENTRAL AFRICA; LARGE SECTION; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; POTENTIAL CHANGE; RAIN RATES; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASUREMENT MISSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; RAIN GAGES;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATIFORM CLOUD;

EID: 77957738956     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1454.1     Document Type: Article

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