Retrieval of rainfall parameters from passive microwave data based on the model of horizontally inhomogeneous atmosphere

Author

Petrenko, Boris

Author_Institution

Global Hydrology & Climate Center, Univ. Space Res. Assoc., Huntsville, AL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

174

Abstract

The “beamfilling” rainfall retrieval algorithm (BFA) is presented, which determines FOV-averaged rainfall parameters through the retrieval of the horizontal hydrometeor structure within microwave radiometer´s FOV. The algorithm combines the inversion of the appropriate approximation of the horizontally inhomogeneous radiative transfer model with the use of cloud/radiative simulations. Results of testing the algorithm for cloud/radiative simulation and for TRMM measurements are shown

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; geophysical signal processing; radiometry; rain; remote sensing; algorithm; atmosphere; beamfilling; horizontal inhomogeneity; horizontally inhomogeneous atmosphere; inversion; measurement technique; microwave radiometry; model; parameters retrieval; passive microwave data; rain; rainfall; remote sensing; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Brightness temperature; Databases; Geophysical measurements; Information retrieval; Iterative algorithms; Microwave radiometry; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.860459

Filename

860459