Abstract: The biases of various rain retrieval algorithms for a spaceborne rain radar due to nonuniformity of rain are studied using simple models and an actual time sequence of rainfall rate. A conventional rain retrieval algorithm ...

Abstract: The effect of non-Rayleigh scattering appearing in a rain observation experiment using a dual-wavelength rain radar, is investigated. The non-Rayleigh scattering effect causes a small difference between the effective radar ...

Abstract: Rain rate estimation properties of multiparameter radar measurements combining radar reflectivity and microwave attenuations are studied through simulations using a two-year disdrometer dataset. In the first simulation, ...

Abstract: Seasonal and spatial variation of the vertical gradient of rainfall rate was investigated using global precipitation data observed by the Precipitation Radar (PR) on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. ...

Abstract: A mirror image is a virtual image of precipitation from ?below? the ocean surface when an airborne or a spaceborne radar is used to view rainfall over the ocean. It is due to a reflection of energy from the sea surface to ...

Abstract: The vertical distribution of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar (PR)-observed precipitation reflectivity and their mirror image (MI) reflectivity are outlined in this paper. The purpose of this ...

Abstract: Rain radar measures instantaneous spatial-average rainfall, while conventional rain gauges directly measure point rainfall with low temporal resolution. Thus differences in the resolution of the sensors create difficulties ...

Abstract: Spaceborne rain radars often operate with a fairly low SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) because of several hardware limitations and the large distance between the radar and target. Rain radar do not directly measure the rain ...

Abstract: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) has made it possible for the first time to evaluate global characteristics of vertical structures of rainfall over monsoon Asia. This study is intended ...

Abstract: bservations from the Multifunctional Transport Satellite-1R (MTSAT-1R) and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellites are analyzed to show the universal view of the cloud life cycle, including the changes ...