Rain rates based on SSM/I, OLR and raingauge data sets
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Archiv für Meteorologie, Geophysik und Bioklimatologie Serie A
- Vol. 50 (4), 165-174
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01026014
Abstract
In this paper we present a methodology for evaluating rain rates from a mix of satellite and surface based observations. The component data sets include the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), microwave radiometric data from the special sensor microwave imager (SSM/I) and surface raingauge data from the World Weather Watch. We have noted some deficiencies in the SSM/I algorithm-based rain rate over land areas; the OLR-based rain rates exhibit a larger lateral spread and lower intensities than the observed rainfall structures. The proposed combined method assimilates these three data sets to provide improved fields of global tropical rainfall.Keywords
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