Evaluation of precipitation estimates by at-launch codes of gpm/dpr algorithms using synthetic data from TRMM/PR Observations

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3931-3944

  Kubota, Takuji ^a   Yoshida, Naofumi ^b   Urita, Shinji ^b   Iguchi, Toshio ^c   Seto, Shinta ^d   Meneghini, Robert ^e   Awaka, Jun ^f   Hanado, Hiroshi ^c   Kida, Satoshi ^a   Oki, Riko ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF JAPAN   (Japan)

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

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algorithms; attenuation; Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM); rain; simulation; snow; spaceborne radar; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SNOW;

ATTENUATION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; SIMULATION; SPACEBORNE RADAR; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRMM;

EID: 84910071909     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2320960     Document Type: Article

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