Abstract: This paper reviews the basis of passive microwave algorithms that derive rainfall rates directly from relationships between brightness temperatures and rainfall rates established by statistical relationships and empirical ...

Abstract: It is generally agreed that changing climate variability, and the associated change in climate extremes, may have a greater impact on environmentally vulnerable regions than a changing mean. This research investigates ...

Abstract: This paper describes a new high-resolution multiplatform multisensor satellite rainfall product for southern Africa covering the period 1993?2002. The microwave infrared rainfall algorithm (MIRA) employed to generate the ...

Abstract: The second WetNet Precipitation Intercomparison Project (PIP-2) evaluates the performance of 20 satellite precipitation retrieval algorithms, implemented for application with Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) passive ...