Oceanic rainfall retrievals using passive and active measurements from SeaWinds remote sensor

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3502-3506

  Ahmad, Khalil A ^a   Jones, W Linwood ^a   Kasparis, Takis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; QRad SRad; QuikSCAT; Rain retrieval; SeaWinds; TMI

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SURFACE WIND VECTOR; OCEANIC RAINFALL RETRIEVALS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NASA; RAIN; SATELLITES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 82355168858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423601     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. K. A. Ahmad, W. L. Jones, T. Kasparis, S. W. Vergara, I. S. Adams, and J. D. Park (2005), Oceanic rain rate estimates from the QuikSCAT Radiometer: A Global Precipitation Mission pathfinder, J. Geophys. Res., 110, doi:10.1029/2004JD005560.
2. B. W. Stiles and S. H. Yueh, "Impact of Rain on Spaceborne Ku-Band Wind Scatteromter Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 40, pp. 1973-1983, 2002.
3. K. Ahmad, W. Jones, and T. Kasparis, "QuikSCAT Radiometer (QRad) Rain Rates Level 2B Data Product," presented at IGARSS'06, Denver, CO, 2006.