Abstract: Microwave emission emerging from a precipitating cloud top and lying in a radiometer's field of view represents the culmination of a complex interaction between emitted microwave radiation and its ongoing extinction through ...

Abstract: Based on the fundamental relationship involving the interaction of microwave radiation with precipitation, microwave-based satellite precipitation estimates hold the most promise for quantitative rain estimation from space. ...

Abstract: Two-dimensional PMS precipitation probes mounted with horizontal optical axis have been previously used to study the shapes of hydrometeors such as raindrops and graupel. Fourier and moment descriptors have been applied ...

Abstract: Recent deployments of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-8 and -9) include full-time 3.9-?m imaging capabilities. This shortwave (near infrared) ...

Abstract: Theoretical calculations of the upwelling microwave radiances from clouds containing layers of rain, ice, and a melting region were performed at frequencies of 18, 37, and 92 GHz. These frequencies coincide with high-resolution ...

Abstract: atellite-derived high-resolution precipitation products (HRPP) have been developed to address the needs of the user community and are now available with 0.25° ? 0.25° (or less) subdaily resolutions. This paper evaluates a ...

Abstract: In July 2005, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigated tropical cyclogenesis, hurricane structure, and intensity change in the eastern North Pacific and western Atlantic using its ER-2 high-altitude ...