Measuring Precipitation from Space EURAINSAT and the Future - Levizzani, V.; Bauer, P.; Turk, F. Joseph; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Climate Monitoring -- European Commission Research for Global Climate Change Studies: Towards Improved Water Observations and Forecasting Capability -- Is Man Actively Changing the Environment -- The Global Precipitation Climatology Project -- Oceanic Precipitation Variability and the North Atlantic Oscillation -- Global Satellite Datasets: Data Availability for Scientists and Operational Users -- Cloud Studies in Support of Satellite Rainfall Measurements -- Cloud Top Microphysics as a Tool for Precipitation Measurements -- The Retrieval of Cloud Top Properties Using VIS-IR Channels -- Cloud Microphysical Properties Retrieval During Intense Biomass Burning Events Over Africa and Portugal -- 3D Effects in Microwave Radiative Transport Inside Precipitating Clouds: Modeling and Applications -- Cloud Microphysical Properties from Remote Sensing of Lightning within the Mediterranean -- The Worth of Long-Range Lightning Observations on Overland Satellite Rainfall Estimation -- Neural Network tools for Satellite Rainfall Estimation -- Rainfall Algorithms -- Passive Microwave Precipitation Measurements at Mid- and High Latitudes -- The Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF): Description and Current Applications -- Past, Present and Future of Microwave Operational Rainfall Algorithms -- Space-Borne Radar Algorithms -- Rain Type Classification Algorithm -- Dual-Wavelength Radar Algorithm -- A Next-generation Microwave Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm for use by TRMM and GPM -- Blended Techniques -- The University of Birmingham Global Rainfall Algorithms -- Multivariate Probability Matching for Microwave Infrared Combined Rainfall Algorithm (MICRA) -- Toward Improvements in Short-time Scale Satellite-Derived Precipitation Estimates using Blended Satellite Techniques -- Global Rainfall Analyses at Monthly and 3-h Time Scales -- CPC MORPHING Technique (CMORPH) -- CMAP: The CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation -- Rainfall Estimation Using a Cloud Patch Classification Map -- Validating Satellite Rainfall Measurements -- Methods for Verifying Satellite Precipitation Estimates -- Assessment of Satellite Rain Retrieval Error Propagation in the Prediction of Land Surface Hydrologi -- EURAINSAT Algorithm Validation and Intercomparison Exercise -- Ground Validation for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project -- Validation of Rainfall Algorithms at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center -- Ground Networks: Are We Doing the Right Thing? -- Modeling Precipitation Processes and Data Assimilation for Nwp -- Aerosol Impact on Precipitation from Convective Clouds -- The Wisconsin Dynamic/Microphysical Model (WISCDYMM) and the use of it to Interpret Satellite-Observed Storm Dynamics -- The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Global Rainfall Data Assimilation Experimentation -- Rainfall Assimilation into Limited Area Models -- Implementing an Operational Chain: The Florence LaMMA Laboratory -- Applications to Monitoring Weather Events -- Satellite Precipitation Algorithms for Extreme Precipitation Events -- Application of a Blended MW-IR Rainfall Algorithm to the Mediterranean -- Retrieving Precipitation with GOES, Meteosat, and Terra/MSG at the Tropics and Mid-latitudes -- Model and Satellite Analysis of the November 9-10, 2001 Algeria Flood -- Modeling Microphysical Signatures of Extreme Events in the Western Mediterranean to Provide a Basis for Diagnosing Precipitation from Space -- Online Visualization and Analysis: A New Avenue to use Satellite Data for Weather, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Research and Applications -- The Present and Future of Satellite Platforms -- The Space-Based Component of the World Weather Watch's Global Observing System (GOS) -- The Meteosat and EPS/Metop Satellite Series -- The Evolution of the NOAA Satellite Platforms -- Japan's Role in the Present and Future Satellite Observation for Global Water Cycle Research -- International Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Program and Mission: An Overview -- Snowfall Measurements by Proposed European GPM Mission -- Observing Rain by Millimetre-Submillimetre Wave Sounding from Geostationary Orbit -- The CGMS/WMO Virtual Laboratory for Education and Training in Satellite Matters -- The International Precipitation Working Group: A Bridge Towards Operational Applications.
Keywords: Atmospheric sciences; Meteorology; Remote sensing; Microwaves; Optical engineering; Climate change; Electronics; Microelectronics; Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Climate Change; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation