Correcting microwave precipitation retrievals for near-surface evaporation

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1312-1315

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

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Phuket Campus   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU); Evaporation; Microwave precipitation estimation; Precipitation; Rain; Remote sensing; Satellite; Snow; Virga

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SNOW; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ACCURACY EVALUATION; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE; PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; SURFACE CLASSIFICATION; VIRGA;

RAIN;

EID: 78650894360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5649424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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