Abstract: This paper reports an analysis of the uninterrupted 1 s resolution data on a constant mid-tropospheric level collected by the NCAR Electra on 16 June 1979 over the Arabian Sea. The Electra completely encircled a well-developed ...

Abstract: A new method to combine temperature soundings derived from VAS radiance observations with conventional data is proposed. Unlike similar previous attempts, only a portion of the signal contained in the VAS temperature ...

Abstract: A parameter study of satellite orbits was performed to estimate sampling errors of area-time averaged rain rate due to temporal sampling by satellites. The sampling characteristics were investigated by accounting for varying ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new simple retrieval algorithm for estimating area-time averaged rain rates over tropical oceans by using single channel microwave measurements from satellites. The algorithm was tested by using the ...

Abstract: A statistical analysis of time series of area-averaged rainfall over the oceans has been conducted around the diurnal time scale. The results of our analysis can be applied directly to the problem of establishing the ...