Frequency of occurrence of rain from liquid-, mixed-, and ice-phase clouds derived from A-Train satellite retrievals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6502-6509

  Mülmenstädt, Johannes ^a   Sourdeval, O ^a   Delanoe J ^b   Quaas, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

cloud thermodynamic phase; precipitation; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ICE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; PRECIPITATION RATES; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL;

RAIN;

CALIPSO; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDSAT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MODIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHINA; INDIA;

EID: 84940452388     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064604     Document Type: Article

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