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RISSome Comments on Passive Microwave Measurement of Rain
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It is argued that because microwave radiation interacts much more strongly with hydrometeors than with cloud particles, microwave measurements from space offer a significant chance of making global precipitation estimates. ...
An Algorithm for Retrieving Water Vapor Profiles in Clear and Cloudy Atmospheres from 183 GHz Radiometric Measurements: Simulation Studies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The latent heat represented by atmospheric water vapor is extremely important to the energetics of the Earth system. Future satellite (NOAA and DMSP) will carry microwave radiometers designed to measure the profile of water ...
An Improved Microwave Radiative Transfer Model for Tropical Oceanic Precipitation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In preparation for the launch of TRMM, new algorithms must be created that take advantage of the combined data from radar and microwave radiometers that will be on board the satellite. A microwave radiative transfer algorithm ...
Retrieval of Water Vapor Profiles Using SSM/T-2 and SSM/I Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A physically based retrieval algorithm is presented that retrieves water vapor profiles from Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature-2 (SSM/T-2) passive microwave brightness temperature measurements. This method can use SSM/T-2 ...
Retrieval of Monthly Rainfall Indices from Microwave Radiometric Measurements Using Probability Distribution Functions
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An algorithm for the estimation of monthly rain totals for 5° cells over the oceans from histograms of SSM/I brightness temperatures has been developed. Them are three novel features to this algorithm. First, it uses ...
Estimation of the Diurnal Cycle of Oceanic Precipitation from SSM/I Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A study of differences between the morning and evening monthly rainfall for 5° ? 5° cells over the oceans from the SSM/I data has been conducted. The monthly rainfalls are estimated from the technique given by Wilheit et ...
Random Errors of Oceanic Monthly Rainfall Derived from SSM/I Using Probability Distribution Functions
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Global averages and random errors associated with the monthly oceanic rain rates derived from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) data using the technique developed by Wilheit et al. are computed. Accounting for ...
A Statistical Technique for Determining Rainfall over Land Employing Nimbus 6 ESMR Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: At 37 GHz, the frequency at which the Nimbus 6 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR 6) measures upwelling radiance, it has been shown theoretically that the atmospheric scattering and the relative independence ...
Estimation of Monthly Rainfall over Oceans from Truncated Rain-Rate Samples: Application to SSM/I Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A physical?statistical monthly rainfall retrieval algorithm has been developed using multichannel brightness temperatures from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I). Since an emission-based retrieval algorithm gives ...
Tropical Cyclone Rainfall as Measured By the Nimbus Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A selected group of 1973 North Pacific Ocean tropical cyclones was studied by using data from the Nimbus 5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR), the Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer (THIR), NOAA-2 and ...