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Bayesian Estimation of Precipitation from Satellite Passive Microwave Observations Using Combined Radar–Radiometer Retrievals
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Precipitation estimation from satellite passive microwave radiometer observations is a problem that does not have a unique solution that is insensitive to errors in the input data. Traditionally, to make this problem well ...
Precipitating Snow Retrievals from Combined Airborne Cloud Radar and Millimeter-Wave Radiometer Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An algorithm for retrieving snow over oceans from combined cloud radar and millimeter-wave radiometer observations is developed. The algorithm involves the use of physical models to simulate cloud radar and millimeter-wave ...
A Robust Dual-Frequency Radar Profiling Algorithm
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: n this study, an algorithm to retrieve precipitation from spaceborne dual-frequency (13.8 and 35.6 GHz, or Ku/Ka band) radar observations is formulated and investigated. Such algorithms will be of paramount importance in ...
Nimbus-7 37 GHz Radiances Correlated with Radar Rain Rates over the Gulf of Mexico
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In a comparison between 37 GHz brightness temperatures from the Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer and rain rates derived from the WSR-57 radars at Galveston, Texas and Apalachicola, Florida, it was found ...
Separation of Convective and Stratiform Precipitation Using Microwave Brightness Temperature
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper presents a new scheme that classifies convective and stratiform (C/S) precipitation areas over oceans using microwave brightness temperature. In this scheme, data are first screened to eliminate nonraining pixels. ...
Diabatic Forcing and Initialization with Assimilation of Cloud Water and Rainwater in a Forecast Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this study, diabatic initialization, diabatic forcing, and liquid water assimilation techniques are tested in a semi-implicit hydrostatic regional forecast model containing explicit representations of grid-scale cloud ...
Combined Use of the Radar and Radiometer of TRMM to Estimate the Influence of Drop Size Distribution on Rain Retrievals
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A combination of passive microwave and radar observations from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is used to investigate the consistency between the two sensors. Rather than relying on some absolute ...
A Texture-Polarization Method for Estimating Convective–Stratiform Precipitation Area Coverage from Passive Microwave Radiometer Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Observational and modeling studies have revealed the relationships between convective?stratiform rain proportion and the vertical distributions of vertical motion, latent heating, and moistening in mesoscale convective ...
A Consistent Treatment of Microwave Emissivity and Radar Backscatter for Retrieval of Precipitation over Water Surfaces
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) and dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR) are designed to provide the most accurate instantaneous precipitation estimates currently available from space. ...
Retrieval of Precipitation Profiles from Multiresolution, Multifrequency Active and Passive Microwave Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this study, a technique for estimating vertical profiles of precipitation from multifrequency, multiresolution active and passive microwave observations is investigated. The technique is applicable to the Tropical ...