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RISA Statistical Examination of Nimbus-7 SMMR Data and Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Temperature, Liquid Water Content in the Atmosphere and Surface Wind Speed
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) brightness temperature measurements over the global oceans have been examined with the help of statistical and empirical techniques. Such analyses show that ...
Remote Sensing of Precipitable Water over the Oceans from Nimbus 7 Microwave Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) brightness temperature measurements in the 21 and 18 GHz channels are used to sense the precipitable water in the atmosphere over oceans. The difference in the ...
Relation Between West Coastal Rainfall and Nimbus 6 SCAMS Liquid Water Data over the Northeastern Pacific Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We describe a research study in which we explored the application to rainfall prediction of cloud liquid water data obtained from the SCAMS experiment of Nimbus 6. The study area is the Pacific Northwest coast of the United ...
A Statistical Technique for Determining Rainfall over Land Employing Nimbus 6 ESMR Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: At 37 GHz, the frequency at which the Nimbus 6 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR 6) measures upwelling radiance, it has been shown theoretically that the atmospheric scattering and the relative independence ...
Diurnal Cycle of Oceanic Precipitation from SSM/I Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Four and a half years of the global monthly oceanic rain rates derived from the DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) F-8 SSM/I (Special Sensor Microwave/Imager) data are used to study the diurnal cycles. Annual ...
Aircraft Observations of the Vertical Structure of Stratiform Precipitation Relevant to Microwave Radiative Transfer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The retrieval of rainfall intensity over the oceans from passive microwave observations is based on a radiative transfer model. Direct rainfall observations of oceanic rainfall are virtually nonexistent making validation ...
A Satellite Technique for Quantitatively Mapping Rainfall Rates over the Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A theoretical model for calculating microwave radiative transfer in raining atmospheres is developed. These calculations are compared with microwave brightness temperatures at a wavelength of 1.55 cm measured by the ...
Analysis of Ground-Measured and Passive-Microwave-Derived Snow Depth Variations in Midwinter across the Northern Great Plains
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Accurate estimation of snow mass is important for the characterization of the hydrological cycle at different space and time scales. For effective water resources management, accurate estimation of snow storage is needed. ...
Microwave Radiometric Observations Near 19.35, 92 and 183 GHz of Precipitation in Tropical Storm Cora
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Observations of rain cells in the remains of a decaying tropical storm were made by Airborne Microwave Radiometers at 19.35 and 92 GHz and three frequencies near 183 GHz. Extremely low brightness temperatures, as low as ...
The Status of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) after Two Years in Orbit
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was launched on 27 November 1997, and data from all the instruments first became available approximately 30 days after the launch. Since then, much progress has been ...