Comparison of global rainfall estimations derived from SSM/I measurements and a general circulation model

Author

Bauer, Peter ; Schluessel, Peter ; Arpe, Klaus

Author_Institution

Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Koeln, Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

1015

Abstract

Monthly rainfall totals over global oceans with a spatial resolution of 2.8 degrees are estimated by both a retrieval algorithm applied to passive microwave measurements by the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) onboard the polar orbiting Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and a model experiment run by the European Center model HAMburg Climate Version (ECHAM) coupled with the Large Scale Geostrophic (LSG) ocean model for a comparison between summer 1987 and 1988. The most significant features coincide very well while the regional rain distributions show differences, in particular in the tropical monsoon areas

Keywords

oceanographic regions; oceanography; rain; AD 1987; AD 1988; DMSP; ECHAM; GCM; LSG; SSM/I measurement; SSMI; atmosphere; general circulation model; global ocean; global rainfall; monthly rainfall; passive microwave radiometry; rain; regional rain distribution; retrieval algorithm; spatial distribution; tropical; Extraterrestrial measurements; Image retrieval; Image sensors; Meteorology; Microwave measurements; Microwave sensors; Oceans; Satellites; Sea measurements; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322158

Filename

322158