REFAME: Rain estimation using forward-adjusted advection of microwave estimates

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1305-1321

  Behrangi, Ali ^a   Imam, Bisher ^a   Hsu, Kuolin ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a   Bellerby, Timothy J ^b   Huffman, George J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Cloud tracking cloud motion winds; Microwave observations; Precipitation; Radars Radar observations; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; WIND DIRECTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651420049     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JHM1248.1     Document Type: Article

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