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Report to trmm (Document No: 19970040817)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Jameson, Arthur R. |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Description | The effort involved three elements all related to the measurement of rain and clouds using microwaves: (1) Examine recently proposed techniques for measuring rainfall rate and rain water content using data from ground-based radars and the TRMM microwave link in order to develop improved ground validation and radar calibration techniques; (2) Develop dual-polarization, multiple frequency radar techniques for estimating rain water content and cloud water content to interpret the vertical profiles of radar reflectivity factors (Z) measured by the TRMM Precipitation Radar; and (3) Investigate theoretically and experimentally the potential biases in TRMM Z measurements due to spatial inhomogeneities in precipitation. The research succeeded in addressing all of these topics, resulting in several referred publications. addition, the research indicated that the effects of non-Rayleigh statistics resulting from the nature of the precipitation inhomogeneities will probably not result in serious errors for the TRMM radar Measurements, but the TRMM radiometers may be subject to significant bias due to the inhomogeneities. |
| File Size | 455394 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19970040817 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2t48mw7p |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1997-09-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Radiometers Meteorological Radar Rain Moisture Content Precipitation Meteorology Ground Truth Microwaves Reflectance Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |