Retrieving precipitation with GOES, meteosat, and Terra/MSG at the tropics and mid-latitudes

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 28, Issue , 2007, Pages 509-519

  Reudenbach, Christoph ^a   Nauss, Thomas ^a   Bendix, Jürg ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced Regional Prediction System; Cloud Microphysics; Convective Core; Radar Network; Rain Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052252272     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6_40     Document Type: Chapter

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