Rain-rate characteristics over the Korean Peninsula and improvement of the Goddard profiling (GPROF) database for TMI rainfall retrievals

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 786-798

  Ryu, Geun Hyeok ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^a   Kummerow, Christian D ^b   Seo, Eun Kyoung ^c   Tripoli, Gregory J ^d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c Kongju National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Microwave observations; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD-RESOLVING; GODDARD PROFILING; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODELING SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN MEASUREMENT; RAIN RATES; RAIN RETRIEVAL; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOUTH KOREA; SUMMER RAINFALL; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; RAIN GAGES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATABASE; EOS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; TRMM;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84861728203     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-094.1     Document Type: Article

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