What does CloudSat reveal about global land precipitation detection by other spaceborne sensors?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4893-4905

  Behrangi, Ali ^a   Tian, Yudong ^b,c   Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H ^a   Stephens, Graeme L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CloudSat; detection; global; land; precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; ERROR DETECTION; LANDING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SENSORS; SNOW;

CLOUDSAT; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL; INFRARED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION CHARACTERISTICS; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

RAIN;

EID: 84902236354     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014566     Document Type: Article

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