Assessment of a variational inversion system for rainfall rate over land and water surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3311-3333

  Iturbide Sanchez, Flavio ^a   Boukabara, Sid Ahmed ^b   Chen, Ruiyue ^a   Garrett, Kevin ^a   Grassotti, Christopher ^a   Chen, Wanchun ^c   Weng, Fuzhong ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Dell Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; rain; remote sensing; satellites

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; GEOPHYSICAL PRODUCTS; GROUND BASED RADAR; ICE WATER; INSTRUMENT NOISE; INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL; METOP-A; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE SATELLITE SENSORS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PRECIPITATION TECHNIQUES; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN WATER; RAINFALL RATES; SATELLITE-BASED SENSORS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SURFACE PARAMETER; VARIATIONAL ALGORITHMS; WATER SURFACE;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; FORESTRY; GAGES; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WATER CONTENT;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD WATER; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SURFACE WATER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052313283     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2119375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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