Statistical properties of precipitation as observed by the TRMM precipitation radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5636-5643

  Yang, Song ^a   Nesbitt, Stephen W ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

precipitation; radar; TRMM

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; PIXELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; RAIN GAGES; WEATHER FORECASTING; CLIMATE MODELS; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

LARGE-SCALE STATISTICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RAINFALL CONTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; CONVECTIVE RAIN;

RAIN;

CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRMM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84905293170     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060683     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Adler, R. F., Jr., J.-J. Wang, G. Gu, and, G. Huffman, (2009), A ten-year tropical rainfall climatology based on a composite of TRMM products, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 87, 281-293.
2. Anagnostou, E. N., C. A. Morales, and, T. Dinku, (2001), The use of TRMM precipitation radar observations in determining ground radar calibration biases, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 18, 616-628.
3. Arshad, S., S. Morid, M. R. Mobasheri, M. A. Alikhani, and, S. Arshad, (2013), Monitoring and forecasting drought impact on dry land farming areas, Int. J. Climatol., 33, 2068-2081, doi: 10.1002/joc.3577.
4. Awaka, J., T. Iguchi, and, K. Okamoto, (2007), Rain type classification algorithm, in Measuring Precipitation From Space: EURAINSAT and the Future, edited by, V. Levizzani, P. Bauer, and, F. J. Turk, pp. 213-224, Springer, Houten, Netherlands.
5. Bauer, P., G. Ohring, and, C. Kummerow, (2011), Assimilating satellite observations of clouds and precipitation into NWP models, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 92, ES25-ES28.
6. Berg, W., T. L'Ecuyer, and, J. M. Haynes, (2010), The distribution of rainfall over oceans from spaceborne radars, J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 49, 535-543.
7. Biasutti, M., S. E. Yuter, C. D. Burleyson, and, A. H. Sobel, (2012), Very high resolution rainfall patterns measured by TRMM precipitation radar: Seasonal and diurnal cycles, Clim. Dyn., 39 (1-2), 239-258.
8. Comstock, K. K., C. S. Bretherton, and, S. E. Yuter, (2005), Mesoscale variability and drizzle in Southeast Pacific stratocumulus, J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3792-3807.
9. Davis, C. A., B. G. Brown, and, R. G. Bullock, (2006), Object-based verification of precipitation forecasts. Part II: Application to convective rain systems, Mon. Weather Rev., 134, 1785-1795.
10. Haddad, Z. S., E. A. Smith, C. D. Kummerow, T. Iguchi, M. R. Farrar, S. L. Durden, M. Alves, and, W. S. Olson, (1997), The TRMM "Day-1" radar/radiometer combined rain-profile algorithm, J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 75, 799-809.
11. Haiden, T., M. J. Rodwell, D. S. Richardson, A. Okagaki, T. Robinson, and, T. Hewson, (2012), Intercomparison of global model precipitation forecast skill in 2010/11 using the seeps score, Mon. Weather Rev., 140, 2720-2733.
12. Hou, A. Y., R. K. Kakar, S. Neeck, A. A. Azarbarzin, C. D. Kummerow, M. Kojima, R. Oki, K. Nakamura, and, T. Iguchi, (2013), The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 95, 701-722, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00164.1.
13. Houze, R. A., Jr., (1997), Stratiform precipitation in regions of convection: A meteorological paradox, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 78, 2179-2196.
14. Huffman, G. J., D. T. Bolvin, E. J. Nelkin, D. B. Wolff, R. F. Adler, G. Gu, Y. Hong, K. P. Bowman, E. F. Stocker, and, D. B. Wolff, (2007), The TRMM multisatellite precipitation analysis (TMPA): Quasi-global, multiyear, combined-sensor precipitation estimates at fine scales, J. Hydrometeorol., 8, 38-55.
15. Iguchi, T., T. Kozu, R. Meneghini, J. Awaka, and, K. Okamoto, (2000), Rain-profiling algorithm for the TRMM precipitation radar, J. Appl. Meteorol., 39, 2038-2052.
16. JAXA (2011), PR algorithm and product information. [Available at http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/TRMM/documents/PR-algorithm-product-information/top-e. html.]
17. Jones, D. M. A., and, A. L. Sims, (1978), Climatology of instantaneous rain fall rates, J. Appl. Meteorol., 17, 1135-1140.
18. Joyce, R. J., and, P. Xie, (2011), Kalman filter-based CMORPH, J. Hydrometeorol., 12, 1547-1563.
19. Khan, S., Y. Hong, H. J. Vergara, J. J. Gourley, G. R. Brakenridge, T. De Groeve, Z. L. Flamig, F. Policelli, and, B. Yong, (2012), Microwave satellite data for hydrologic modeling in ungauged basins, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., 9, 663-667, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2177807.
20. Kidd, C., E. Dawkins, and, G. Huffman, (2013), Comparison of precipitation derived from the ECMWF operational forecast model and satellite precipitation datasets, J. Hydrometeorol., 14, 1463-1482.
21. Kummerow, C., W. Barnes, T. Kozu, J. Shiue, and, J. Simpson, (1998), The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) sensor package, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 15, 809-817.
22. Kummerow, C., Y. Hong, W. S. Olson, S. Yang, R. F. Adler, J. Mccollum, R. Ferraro, G. Petty, and, T. T. Wilheit, (2001), The evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for rainfall estimation from passive microwave sensors, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 1801-1820.
23. Liao, Z., Y. Hong, J. Wang, H. Fukuoka, K. Sassa, D. Karnawati, and, F. Fathani, (2010), Prototyping an experimental early warning system for rainfall-induced landslides in Indonesia using satellite remote sensing and geospatial datasets, Landslides, 7, 317-324, doi: 10.1007/s10346-010-0219-7.
24. Nesbitt, S. W., and, A. M. Anders, (2009), Very high resolution precipitation climatologies from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission precipitation radar, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L15815, doi: 10.1029/2009GL038026.
25. Nesbitt, S. W., and, E. J. Zipser, (2003), The diurnal cycle of rainfall and convective intensity according to three years of TRMM measurements, J. Clim., 16, 1456-1475.
26. Nesbitt, S. W., R. Cifelli, and, S. A. Rutledge, (2006), Storm morphology and rainfall characteristics of TRMM precipitation features, Mon. Weather Rev., 134, 2702-2721.
27. Nesbitt, S. W., D. J. Gochis, and, T. J. Lang, (2008), The diurnal cycle of clouds and precipitation along the Sierra Madre Occidental observed during NAME-2004: Implications for warm season precipitation estimation in complex terrain, J. Hydrometeorol., 9, 728-743.
28. Rasmussen, K. L., S. L. Choi, M. D. Zuluaga, and, R. A. Houze Jr., (2013), TRMM precipitation bias in intense convection in South America, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 3457-3461, doi: 10.1002/grl.50651.
29. Schumacher, C., and, R. A. Houze Jr., (2003), Stratiform rain in the tropics as seen by the TRMM precipitation radar, J. Clim., 16, 1739-1756.
30. Simpson, J., R. F. Adler, and, G. R. North, (1988), A proposed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 69, 278-295.
31. Smith, E. A., et al. (2007), International Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) program and mission: An overview, in Measuring Precipitation From Space: EURAINSAT and the Future, edited by, V. Levizzani, P. Bauer, and, F. J. Turk, pp. 611-654, Springer, Houten, Netherlands.
32. Song, X., and, R. Yu, (2004), Underestimated tropical stratiform precipitation in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM3), Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L24101, doi: 10.1029/ 2004GL021292.
33. Stephens, G., and, C. Kummerow, (2007), The remote sensing of clouds and precipitation from space: A review, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3742-3765.
34. Wilson, A. M., and, A. P. Barros, (2014), An investigation of warm rainfall microphysics in the southern Appalachians: Orographic enhancement via low-level seeder-feeder interactions, J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 1783-1805.
35. Yang, S., and, E. A. Smith, (2006), Mechanisms for diurnal variability of global tropical rainfall observed from TRMM, J. Clim., 19, 5190-5226.
36. Yang, S., and, E. A. Smith, (2008), Convective-stratiform precipitation variability at seasonal scale from eight years of TRMM observations: Implications for multiple modes of diurnal variability, J. Clim., 21, 4087-4114.
37. Yang, S., K.-S. Kuo, and, E. A. Smith, (2008), Persistent nature of secondary diurnal modes in both land and ocean precipitation, J. Clim., 21, 4115-4131.