Global satellite millimeter-wave precipitation retrievals trained with a cloud-resolving numerical weather prediction model

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3910-3913

  Surussavadee, Chinnawat ^a,b,c   Staelin, David H ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PHUKET RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

AMSU; Microwave precipitation estimation; Microwave radiative transfer; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAINWATER;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; ORBITS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITES; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUDS;

EID: 82355182757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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