A study of warm rain detection using A-Train satellite data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Ruiyue ^a,b   Li, Zhanqing ^b,c   Kuligowski, Robert J ^d   Ferraro, Ralph ^e   Weng, Fuzhong ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e Center for Satellite Applications and Research NESDIS 5825 University Research Ct ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; LIQUIDS; NASA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITES; SENSORS;

A-TRAIN; ACTIVE INSTRUMENTS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL OCEAN; ICE-PHASE PROCESS; KEY PARAMETERS; LIQUID WATER CLOUDS; LIQUID WATER PATHS; MULTI-SENSOR DATA; PRECIPITATION PROCESS; RAIN DETECTION; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN RATES; SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS; SATELLITE DATA; TOTAL PRECIPITATION;

RAIN;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; GLOBAL OCEAN; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR;

EID: 79951876234     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046217     Document Type: Article

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