TRMM Precipitation Radar data
Analysis of Storm Structure over Africa Using the Trmm Precipitation Radar Data
... height data and histograms from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) have been used to study the storm structure of the major climatic regions in Africa and ...
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Relating surface backscatter response from TRMM precipitation radar to soil moisture: results over a semi arid region
... cipitation Radar (TRMMPR), initially designed to measure rainfall (Kummerow et ...moisture data is not widely available and is sparse for regional scale mod- eling (Tang and Piechota, ...
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Understanding climate-driven processes for data-scarce mountain glaciers : insights from reanalysis data and global climate models, as well as in-situ and remote sensing sources
... during precipitation events is crucial for better understanding a number of hydro-climatic processes, for instance glacier-climate interactions or runoff from high mountain ...during precipitation events is ...
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Evaluation of TRMM Multi satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) performance in the Central Andes region and its dependency on spatial and temporal resolution
... The data is provided in 3- hourly intervals on a ...namely TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI), Special Sen- sor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I), Advanced Microwave Scan- ning Radiometer-EOS (AMSR-E) and Advanced ...
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Scoping a field experiment: error diagnostics of TRMM precipitation radar estimates in complex terrain as a basis for IPHEx2014
... Quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) To assess the accuracy of TRMM PR rainfall estimates, his- tograms of concurrent satellite near-surface rain rate (NSR) estimates and gauge observations for the ...
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Enhancing the consistency of spaceborne and ground-based radar comparisons by using beam blockage fraction as a quality filter
... spaceborne radar (SR) observations from the Ku-band precipitation radars on- board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellites as a ...
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Evaluation of global fine resolution precipitation products and their uncertainty quantification in ensemble discharge simulations
... a TRMM microwave imager, and a precipitation radar - are employed to obtain accurate precipitation ...The TRMM precipitation radar is the first space-based precipita- tion ...
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TRMM Data Users Handbook
... the radar echo to an altitude of 20 km from the ground surface are sampled approximately every 250 m in terms of a range in the beam ...sampling data for the same distance (same range) in a beam direction ...
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Spatio temporal assessment of WRF, TRMM and in situ precipitation data in a tropical mountain environment (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)
... Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) products have been available since ...provides precipitation data at a 3 h time step from a combination of remote sensing observations (microwave imager, ...
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Evaluation of latest TMPA and CMORPH satellite precipitation products over Yellow River Basin
... and radar are the major tools used for rainfall ob- ...the radar dataset, the data quality is reduced in such terrain as a result of the distorted electronic signals introduced by the surrounding ...
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Extreme Precipitation Estimates from TRMM in CabindaProvince. Angola
... the radar) and passive instruments are used to estimate precipitation from the electromagnetic radiation received from or reflected by clouds and rainfall ...sub-tropical precipitation and to verify ...
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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Development Status
... – Same altitude TRMM satellite 400 Km (launched in 97 with Ku band Radar and smaller Radiometer) to provide data continuity for Ku Band. • TRMM at 35 degree inclination – covered mostly[r] ...
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Variability in Spatial Distribution of Precipitation Overall Rugged Topography of Lebanon, Using TRMM Images
... gages data represents limited spatial coverage, especially in rugged ter- rains like ...Other precipitation data sources are the developing satel- lite and radar ...rainfall data of 18 ...
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Analysis of TRMM Precipitation Radar Algorithms and Rain over the Tropics and Southeast Texas
... the TRMM PR 2A23 algorithm is evidenced by the introduction of new rain types with physically unique properties in ...the data user can be informed by the analysis of vertical distributions of reflectivity ...
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Toward a Framework For Systematic Error Modeling Of Spaceborne Precipitation Radar With Noaa/Nssl Ground Radar Based National Mosaic Qpe
... (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) at ...satellite precipitation products—in particular those on board low-earth-orbiting ...The TRMM PR ...
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Spatial correlation of radar and gauge precipitation data in high temporal resolution
... German Weather Service (DWD) runs a network of 16 C- band Doppler radars covering Germany (DWD, 2003). They provide several composite radar images in different temporal and spatial resolutions. For our purposes, ...
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Evaluation of high resolution precipitation analyses using a dense station network
... and radar-derived QPE) yields worse error measures than the pure radar-derived ...ized) precipitation cell on 1 September 2011 at 16:45 UTC, and the interpolation results in an exaggeration of the ...
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Mesoscale numerical simulations of heavy nocturnal rainbands associated with coastal fronts in the Mediterranean Basin
... Coastal-front depth (H) plays an important role in enhanc- ing convective precipitation by helping the warm and moist air mass reach LFC (Miglietta and Rotunno, 2010). As an ex- ample of how H is estimated by ...
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Large scale snow water equivalent status monitoring: comparison of different snow water products in the upper Colorado Basin
... temperature, precipitation, wind speed, humidity, and radi- ation (longwave and shortwave) with a temporal resolution of 6 h time steps and spatial resolutions of ...1996). Precipitation is the most im- ...
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Evaluation and comparison of satellite precipitation estimates with reference to a local area in the Mediterranean Sea
... CRM data bases (necessarily constituted by a limited number of simulations because of their complexity and computational cost) in the satellite-retrieval algorithms may introduce large biases because CRM simula- ...
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