An update on the oceanic precipitation rate and its zonal distribution in light of advanced observations from space

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3957-3965

  Behrangi, Ali ^a   Stephens, Graeme ^a   Adler, Robert F ^b   Huffman, George J ^c   Lambrigtsen, Bjorn ^a   Lebsock, Matthew ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SENSORS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; CLOUD PROFILING RADAR; COMPLEMENTARY-SENSORS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

AMSR-E; CLOUD COVER; CLOUDSAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRMM; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84901830214     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00679.1     Document Type: Article

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