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RISSatellite Passive Microwave Rain Rate Measurement over Croplands during Spring, Summer and Fall
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Rain rate algorithms for spring, summer and fall that have been developed from comparisons between the brightness temperatures measured by the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and rain rates derived ...
A Satellite Passive 37-GHz Scattering-based Method for Measuring Oceanic Rain Rates
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A combination of theory and measurement is used to develop a scattering-based method for quantitatively measuring rainfall over the ocean from Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) 37-GHz observations. ...
Global Oceanic Precipitation from the MSU during 1979—91 and Comparisons to Other Climatologies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Oceanic precipitation is estimated on a 2.5° grid for the period 1979?1991 from Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) channels 1, 2, and 3 data gathered by seven separate TIROS-N satellites. Precipitation is diagnosed when cloud ...
Diurnal Variation of Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans Observed by TRMM/TMI Combined with SSM/I
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) data are used in this study as the first passive microwave information from a precessing orbit to reveal diurnal variations of precipitation over the ...
Potential Biases in Feedback Diagnosis from Observational Data: A Simple Model Demonstration
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Feedbacks are widely considered to be the largest source of uncertainty in determining the sensitivity of the climate system to increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations, yet the ability to diagnose them from ...
Precision Lower Stratospheric Temperature Monitoring with the MSU: Technique, Validation, and Results 1979–1991
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Microwave Sounding Unit channel 4 data from the TIROS-N series of NOAA satellites are intercalibrated to provide a continuous global record of deep-layer averaged lower stratospheric temperatures during 1979?1991. A 13-year ...
Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Monitoring with AMSU-A: Estimation of Maximum Sustained Wind Speeds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The first Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit temperature sounder (AMSU-A) was launched on the NOAA-15 satellite on 13 May 1998. The AMSU-A?s higher spatial and radiometric resolutions provide more useful information on the ...
Measuring the Global Distribution of Intense Convection over Land with Passive Microwave Radiometry
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The global distribution of intense convective activity over land is shown to be measurable with satellite passive-microwave methods through a comparison of an empirical rain rate algorithm with a climatology of thunderstorm ...
Comments on “A Bias in the Midtropospheric Channel Warm Target Factor on the NOAA-9 Microwave Sounding Unit”
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: o-Chedley and Fu investigated the difference in the magnitude of global temperature trends generated from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) for the midtroposphere (TMT, surface to about 75 hPa) between the University of ...
How Dry is the Tropical Free Troposphere? Implications for Global Warming Theory
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The humidity of the free troposphere is being increasingly scrutinized in climate research due to its central role in global warming theory through positive water vapor feedback. This feedback is the primary source of ...