Seamless advective blending of total precipitable water retrievals from polar-orbiting satellites

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1024-1036

  Wimmers, Anthony J ^a   Velden, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave observations; Precipitation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; COMPOSITE IMAGES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; END USERS; FUNCTION OF TIME; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; SAMPLING TIME; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TIME GAP; TIME-DIFFERENCES; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER;

BLENDING; OVERPASSES; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959616898     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2589.1     Document Type: Article

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