Multiplatform comparisons of rain intensity for extreme precipitation events

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 675-686

  Amitai, Eyal ^a,b   Petersen, Walter ^c   Llort, Xavier ^d   Vasiloff, Steve ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^d Hydrometeorological Innovate Solutions (HYDS)   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme precipitation events; Meteorological radar; Multi sensor quantitative precipitation estimation; Precipitation; Probability distribution function; Rainfall intensity; Spaceborne radar; Tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAGES; GRAPHIC METHODS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; NASA; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TROPICS;

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RADAR-ESTIMATED RAINFALL; RAINFALL INTENSITY; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 80053172634     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2162737     Document Type: Article

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