NASA NTRS · 19900043091
Tropical oceanic rainfall - Estimation from SMMR and SSM/I
Abstract
A method of inferring rainfall over oceans with Nimbus-7 SMMR data (Prabhakara et al., 1986) is improved by including data from the DMSP Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). The microwave observations at low frequencies are compared with the SSM/I measurements at 85 GHz. The process used to analyze the microwave data and the retrieval method are described. A map of the monthly mean rainfall rate for July 1987 over the North and South Pacific Oceans is obtained using the SSM/I data.
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Prabhakara, C., Dalu, Giuseppe, Vollmer, B. E.. 1989-01-01. Tropical oceanic rainfall - Estimation from SMMR and SSM/I. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19900043091
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