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Relation between west coastal rainfall and nimbus-6 scams liquid water data over the northeastern pacific ocean
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Viezee, W. Shigeishi, H. |
| Copyright Year | 1979 |
| Description | The application to rainfall prediction of cloud liquid water data obtained from the SCAMS experiment of Nimbus-6 is explored. The study area is the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States, where rainfall is produced by extratropical storms that approach from across the Pacific Ocean. The SCAMS data related to cloud liquid water over the ocean, and coastal rainfall data, are analyzed for 20 different storm systems in the northeastern Pacific Ocean; these produced significant rainfall from Washington to central California during the period October 1975 through March 1976. Results show that the distribution of storm cloud water analyzed from the SCAMS data over the ocean foreshadows the distribution of coastal rainfall accumulated from the storm at a later time. It is concluded that passive microwave sensor measurements of cloud water over the ocean, when used in conjunction with numerical and other objective guidance, can be used to enhance the accuracy of predictions of coastal rainfall distribution. Limitations in the SCAMS measurements and in the data analysis and interpretation are noted. |
| File Size | 1324762 |
| Page Count | 22 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19800024546 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t23c0vc67 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1979-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Weather Forecasting Correlation Coefficients Pacific Ocean Coastal Plains Nimbus 6 Satellite Spaceborne Photography Rain Spatial Distribution Storms Meteorology Moisture Content Microwave Imagery Microwave Spectrometers Cloud Photography Clouds Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
