An overview of the precipitation retrieval algorithm for the dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR) on the global precipitation measurement (GPM) mission's core satellite

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8528, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Iguchi, Toshio ^a   Seto, Shinta ^b   Meneghini, Robert ^c   Yoshida, Naofumi ^d   Awaka, Jun ^e   Kubota, Takuji ^f   Kozu, Toshiaki ^g   Chandra, V ^h   Le, Minda ^h   Liao, Liang ^c   Tanelli, Simone ⁱ   Durden, Steve ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^g SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Dual Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR); GPM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RAIN GAGES; SENSORS; SNOW;

DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADARS; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSIONS; GPM; LEVEL 2; PARTICLE SIZE INFORMATION; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; RAINFALL RATES;

RAIN;

EID: 84894286255     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.977352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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