Comparison of rain fractions over tropical and sub-tropical ocean obtained from precipitation retrieval algorithms for microwave sounders

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Kida, Satoshi ^a,b   Shige, Shoichi ^b   Manabe, Takeshi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TROPICS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE SOUNDER; MICROWAVE SURFACE; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; RADAR SITES; RAIN FRACTIONS; SATELLITE MAPPING; SCATTERING INDICES; SCATTERING REGIME; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION PRECIPITATION RADARS;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MAPPING METHOD; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION;

KWAJALEIN; MARSHALL ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 78650565351     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014279     Document Type: Article

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