ESTIMATION OF AREA-AVERAGED RAINFALL OVER TROPICAL OCEANS FROM MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY - A SINGLE CHANNEL APPROACH Academic Article

abstract

• The algorithm was tested by using the Nimbus-5 Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer (ESMR-5) and a simple microwave radiative transfer model to retrieve seasonal 5 5 area averaged rainrate over the tropical Atlantic and Pacific. The brightness temperatures were collected and analyzed into histograms for each season and in each grid box. The histograms suggest a normal distribution of background noise plus a skewed rain distribution at the higher brightness temperatures. By using a statistical estimation procedure based upon normally distributed background noise, the rain distribution was separated from the raw histogram. The radiative transfer model was applied to the rain-only distribution to retrieve area-time averaged rainrates throughout the tropics. An adjustment for the beam filling error was incorporated in the procedure. -from Authors

authors

• North, Jerry

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY

author list (cited authors)

• SHIN, K. S., RIBA, P. E., & NORTH, G. R.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• SHIN, KS||RIBA, PE||NORTH, GR

publication date

• October 1990

publisher

• American Meteorological Society  Publisher

published in

• JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY  Journal

keywords

• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3701 Atmospheric Sciences
• 3706 Geophysics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1175/1520-0450(1990)029<1031:EOAARO>2.0.CO;2

start page

• 1031

end page

• 1042

volume

• 29

issue

• 10