Abstract: The ?differential absorption technique? is used to derive columnar water vapor contents above clouds. Radiative transfer simulations were carried out for two different spectral channels, one channel within the ?στ?water ...

Abstract: This paper presents first validation results for an algorithm developed for the retrieval of integrated columnar water vapor from measurements of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on board ...

Abstract: The status of current rainfall-retrieval techniques by satellite radiometry has been evaluated by recent international algorithm intercomparison projects. As a general result, passive microwave techniques perform superiorly ...